The Libranos: SNC Lavalin

SNC Lavalin 46 Comments

And here come the op-eds for your morning consumption.

Wells: The moral catastrophe of Justin Trudeau

Blatchford: Today sounded and felt like a death knell for the Liberal government

Ivison: … that cracking sound you heard was Liberal Party unity breaking up

Furey: The Unbearable Lightness of Justin Trudeau

Coyne: … the Trudeau government is now officially in crisis

For a Saskatchewan angle, John Gormley Live is going wall to wall, beginning at 8:30 our time (9:30 ET).

46 Replies to “The Libranos: SNC Lavalin”

  1. So…how about these media peeps starts digging to find out who Telford has ‘connections’ with to control the ‘op-eds’.

    I’m hoping David Akin and Brian Lilley are looking around.
    My bet: Ezra will be first to get it out.

    1. I could agree to let Butts and Telford go without charge, if they gave us names:
      1) names of every reporter / editor in Canada that are open to writing op-eds
      2) names of every lawyer involved, there are always some damn lawyers involved
      3) names of every politician involved

      Plus, all evidence they have relating to this case as well as media manipulation.
      Then I could agree to 10 lashes and they walk

      1. List of reporters that WONT write favorable op-Ed’s is likely much shorter and easier list to compile.

  2. I am being very cynical here, but I truly think that there are enough stupid people East of the Manitoba border who will vote Liberal yet again in the fall election and at best, Canada will have a minority Liberal government. If that happens, I (who used to be a proud Canadian) will continue my advocacy for an independent Alberta and Saskatchewan. And I say this as someone who has lived in Toronto for 25 years, Ottawa for 2 years and has visited All the provinces (I still need to visit the Yukon and the NWT).

    1. “enough stupid people East of the Manitoba border” and lot’s of stupid people West of the Alberta border.

      1. Big Momma….

        Even New Brunswick has never, ever been dumb enough to vote for a NDP Government!

        That alone should disqualify low information Albertans from disparaging NBers forever.

        No homegrown TV………… options are CBC or Irving owned English and French newspapers and radio stations.

        Plus 30 percent French population in Canada’s only? bilingual province.

        Plus on the wrong side of Canada’s only English-banned province…….Quebec.

        Tell you what, we’ll trade you all that shat for your liquid golden goose and see how the f*ck you make out, wanker.

        1. First, I am Not from Alberta, although I have lived in that fine province for a large portion of my life. The NDP were elected in Alberta as a protest vote against the corrupt PC party (which was in power for over 45 years). The Maritimes have always depended on monies remitted from other parts of Canada either by workers who live /work in the West or by equalization payments. Sadly, having a foul mouth does not strengthen your point of view.

      2. Manitoba is NDPee country, Saskabush is tommy douglass country, and nutly is the queen of newfberta, and you fools honk about Ontario. Stupid is as stupid does. Clean up yer own mess first, then tell me about mine

    2. I have thought of the same Absolute Worst Case Scenario…. a minority Lib gov’t propped up by the Greens and NDP.
      There will not be an economy left to pillage after 1 year of that.

  3. The Canadian press has been tolerating it quite well for a long time now. Did you get your 600 m yet?

    Maclean’s “Paul Wells: What Jody Wilson-Raybould described today is a sickeningly smug protection racket and it should make us all question what we’re willing to tolerate”

    1. If you are from Quebec corruption is not just tolerated, it is now a way of life that is perfectly normal.

  4. Ha! The moral outrage from the media is funny. Maybe they can explain why the prime ministers office stated that they could get favourable coverage whenever they snap their fingers.

  5. “Butts and Telford thought hiring a former Supreme Court judge would be a good idea: It would give “us cover”, Telford said, and if Wilson-Raybould was nervous, “we would of course line up all kinds of people to write OpEds saying that what she is doing is proper.”

    Bought and paid for.

  6. Silly me, I’m amazed that anyone actually expected better from a party that would put this feckless nincompoop up front in order to regain power.

    1. It bears repeating that when Justin was elected leader of the federal Liberals, they looked to be nowhere near power. They were coming off the Michael Ignatieff and Stephane Dion debacles, and they were running third behind the NDP. Justin got the prize because nobody else wanted it. The came the election call and the Mulcair burqa NDP meltdown, and voila, second-string Justin is PM. (He then went on to impose his gender and race preferences to effectively choose the second-string of available Liberal MPs.) It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that the Liberal power core has an opinion of Justin that is not too different from ours.

      1. completely 100% consistent with the overarching LIEberal M.O.:
        power. power at any cost. power and more power no matter the level of gangrenous rot.
        drunk with power and still more power. addicted to power, trample ALL decency and intergrity for
        POWER POWER POWER.

        and it works because Liberal, kaybeck, TURDoh . . . .

      2. Pfft. The Liberals are always near power. This is Canada. They believe they are the natural governing party, after all. In case you haven’t noticed they have formed most of the country’s governments for the last … well forever. This is not the same as the sinking ship for which Kim Campbell was handed the helm. I believe they fully expected the young Dauphin to succeed on his father’s name and a good head of hair.

  7. I came across the comment below on Blazing Cat Fur and thought it might generate some discussion.

    T-Wolf
    “It may be instructive to look back at the 2004 Commission of Inquiry into the Sponsorship Program and Advertising Activities, also know as the Gomery Commission.

    During testimony at the inquiry Alex Himelfarb, Clerk of the Privy Council carefully dissected the difference in a parliamentary system of government between being accountable, responsible and answerable for the misdeeds of some of the offices of government like the Prime Minister, Ministers of the Crown and Deputy Ministers.

    If memory serves me, Mr. Himelfarb posited that the Prime Minister was neither responsible nor accountable for the misdeeds of those who carried out the various elements of the crimes. The Prime Minister was “answerable” which is a narrower form of accountability than is full accountability.

    In a parliamentary system of government, ministers of the crown are accountable and responsible for what happens in their ministry on their watch. If memory serves me deputy ministers are accountable and responsible to their respective minister and to parliament for carrying out the policies of their department.

    Why is this a salient point with regard to the SNC Lavalin scandal?

    Presumably, because it may provide the Prime Minister, the Clerk of the Privy Council and the PM’s Chief of Staff with enough wiggle room in terms of their accountability and responsibility that the likelihood of any investigation into obstruction of justice is impossible to undertake without it being derailed.

    Further, in a parliamentary system it appears that the former AG, Jody Wilson-Raybould was the individual accountable and responsible for doing her job which was to resist the pressure tactics being applied on her. While she might have resigned over the incident it was unnecessary for her to do so. She could just have told the PMO to go pound salt. Which is what might have happened.

    In conclusion, the best place to address the accountability and responsibility for the SNC Lavalin scandal in at the ballot box in October 2019. If the Trudeau Government does not pay a high price there for their attempt to interfere in the impartiality of our justice system then Canadians will have essentially voted in favour of political interference in the justice system in the future.

    Consider that carefully, because this time it was political interference to help their friends. Next time it might be political interference to prosecute their enemies.”

    1. But Trudeau and the PMO were pressuring the AG after SNC launched a court case on the issue of PDA therefore it was sub-judicae. They are responsible for that.

  8. The call needs to be for her to be able to tell the complete story. It is obvious there is more after she was demoted and she is prepared to disclose it . Otherwise the pundits will rationalize what has happened as if you listen closely , they are already doing. ( I know these people , they are ethical Ect ). It won’t take long to muddy the waters and for it to at a minimum go to the sidelines. I would expect a full force campaign of attack on Shceer.

    1. Concerned, ” It won’t take long to muddy the waters and for it to at a minimum go to the sidelines. I would expect a full force campaign of attack on Shceer.”

      Ya, no kidding. Did you see how the media actually attacked Scheer last night after he ask the Turd to resign and called for the RCMP to investigate? Then watch the State Funded Media politely toss softball questions to Trudeau. The sickening continues.

      1. Carl -FOOD for thought. The drama teachers brand is soiled and he is now very expendable. There is a tougher smarter alternative now who has risen above the scandal. She is anti pipeline and oil and in the Stanley case has shown she has issues with Canadian law. How do think Scheer will stack up. I think those opposed are moves behind. But I was surprised yesterday, maybe I will be again.

        1. I’d be surprised if J.W.Raybould would be allowed to grab the mace, after knee capping the prince Turd. Too many old stock Laurentian Elite wouldn’t be able to trust her.
          I could see her leading the NDP after jugmeat fails this fall. The NDP would glom on to her soooo fast, a woman, a native, an anti-pipeliner, a sjw,,,,a perfect fit for them.

          1. “Carl .. I’d be surprised if J.W.Raybould would be allowed to grab the mace”.

            I agree. She is now a pariah in the eyes of the Liberal power base for causing what they see as a “problem”. If she was a loyal Liberal she would have kept quiet and all would have gone down according to plan and SNC would be happy. Liberal life would have resumed to normal after the Globe article became stale.

  9. I thought Paul Wells was a friend of PMGroper, holy crap, if you only click 1 of the five op-eds, you might want to click on Wells at Macleans. Long knives are out.

    1. The establishment mediocracy are pretty sure they can tamp this thing down over the summer at the latest.
      Don’t trust any of them, Grit sycophants they be.
      More take us to the brink, then back off to be “moderate,” with a big helping of auto-bribery coming this fall.
      This and the Kenney show in AB may require a regrouping by the holier than thou better than us punditocracy.
      At least our Fourth Estate has not (yet) given themselves over to the Fifth Column.
      Don’t count on that continuing much longer. Time to derail the Grit train folks (especially) my ON expatriates.

    2. Wells jumped out in front of this one to prove his bona fides. He’s not on the take from the libranos…. and wont write a puff piece favouring them…..like his confreres. No sir!

    3. Carl, Brian, JWR is a tool that is being used by the backroom power brokers to get rid of the riff raff. Most liberals are big business types, and this crowd of clowns was destroying big business at quite a pace. The Butt’s doctrine was/is the problem, and it is now entrenched in the government. House cleaning can be messy as Patdick Brown affair has shown.

  10. The fact the knives are out says to me that the laurentian elite are satisfied with their options to retain power if Trudeau is removed or defeated. I’m looking at you Andrew Scheer

  11. I guess the media have decided that the promise of sprinkling money to them wasn’t enough.

  12. The CBC is conspicuous by its absence on the issue of a criminal investigation of the PM and the PMO. No surprise since they are ardent supporters of the PM, receiving an extra $675 million from Justin shortly after his election. The CBC led the charge on the Mike Duffy affair in an attempt to dethrone Harper with relentless critical coverage, and now ? The lead article on their website this morning is about Chrystia Freeland saying that Jody Wilson-Raybould spoke “her truth”, which of course is to be interpreted as not “the truth” (link below), and that the PM would never do anything inappropriate. For goodness sake, even the Toronto Star this morning is calling the SNC-Lavalin affair a constitutional crisis (link also below)
    https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/wilson-raybould-freeland-trudeau-snc-lavalin-1.5036795

    https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/2019/02/27/snc-lavalin-scandal-a-constitutional-crisis-lawyers-say.html

  13. She said they said. I believe her though admit confirmation bias because interference for cronies is SOP in Gritland.
    The attempted (imho) railroading of Admiral Norman is another ongoing case.
    Why did Butts have 50 plus call with the SNC fraudsters about to lose out on federal contracts unless conviction was delayed?
    This isn’t about a difference in perception of discussions, the issue of losing Quebec seats was brought up again and again.
    Some people are arguing the attorney general and justice minister functions should be separated. A good point imho.
    That is supposed to be the case de facto, with a Chinese wall in place to prevent inteference, aka the PPSC.
    It’s more like an elevator to the penthouse. Or is the SNC Lavalin head office? Or the PMO? They’re so hard to keep straight!

  14. Let us assume for a moment that the mantra of “move along people nothing to see here” does not come into play at some point and the Conservatives do gain a majority. The most disturbing aspect of this episode is not that Trudeau and the PMO attempted to influence the Attorney-General (it is what I expect of Quebec pols and hacks) it was the behavior of the Clerk of the Privy Council. Is there any evidence to date that the Conservatives under Scheer could conduct a successful purge?

  15. My take:
    – Justine’s feminist virtue signalling triumphs over reason; appoints JWR Justice Minister/AG
    – JWR takes it upon herself to resolve all outstanding aboriginal grievances – singlehandedly – as first and top priority. Singular focus.
    – Justine pushes back and reminds her lordship there are other priorities in the Justice file, like DPAs perhaps?
    – JWR says no way any SNC DPA gets priority over my unresolved native issues, certainly not in terms of what I’ll be pushing for in any new legislation.
    – Justine says OK, screw you Jodi, I’ll get my DPA via inclusion in the Finance omnibus bill process. (The same process Libs went apeshit over when Harper dared to use it.)
    – JWR, without providing any rationale whatsoever, states she’ll just back her Director of PPSC in her recommendation not to go the DPA route. To paraphrase Adrienne, “I’m the minister of Justice, and you’re not!”
    – Justine now faced with the dilemma that the only way to salvage his position (re DPAs, leadership and next election) is to totally destroy JWR in public.
    Tough trade-off: losing all of the Rez or all of QC.
    Live by the virtue signalling; die by the virtue signaling!
    Good luck, Soy Boy!

  16. Criminal wrongdoing is difficult to prove. JWR was vague when asked. She provided cover for bongo.

    The real problem here is political. The LPC wrote a piece of immoral legislation to protect it’s friend SNC-L. They didn’t have the character to present it to parliament in stand alone form but rather buried it in a budget in order to obscure it.

    I’m not sure why more people aren’t outraged by the morality of the issue? It’s ok in Canada for Corporations to openly engage in criminal behaviour without fear of criminal prosecution but individuals don’t enjoy the same protection?

    Where does this behaviour end? It erodes the idea of justice itself. It’s what makes our society different from 3rd world shit holes!

    The only chance of removing bongo is in the court of public opinion. If there isn’t now a strong enough case against him to toss him from office then the country is hopelessly lost. He is found wanting on every moral front.

  17. Scott Adams often talks about cognitive dissonance and how to spot when people or groups try to desperately wiggle their way out of it. How the “movie” they see in their head is radically different than other people’s movie. The Liberal Party, Trudeau and his supporters are deep into cognitive dissonance.

    They pride themselves as the party of feminism, progressive identity politics, champions of the poor and working class, transparency and honesty, etc. When confronted by solid proof that it is actually the party that fires a female, native AG who dared to prevent them from breaking the law to help VIP white collar criminals and crony capitalists evade legal consequences…Liberals cannot process the discrepancy between their “we’re the heroes” movie in their brain with the “we’re the bad guys” reality.

    This accounts for all of the bizarre responses to a pretty solid case of political interference in a criminal proceeding. The other response being almost total silence of the usual suspects (experts, academics, certain journalists, economists and pollsters, even retired supreme court judges and prime ministers) who I guess we now know can be relied on to write a “shitload of supportive op-eds” for the Liberals.

  19. My inner cynic feels thoroughly vindicated today. Most of our federal institutions are indeed corrupted and rigged in support of Liberal politics and Quebec. Most of our editorials and “unbiased, expert” analysis are also corrupted and rigged.

    The inclusion of a former Supreme Court justice and political interference in judicial appointments probably means the court decisions from the supreme court to local judges are also rigged. This explains some of the bizarre rulings regarding provincial alcohol trade and persistent anti-oil pipeline rulings. The failure to successfully prosecute money laundering (BC), tax evasion (Panama papers), political corruption and corporate crimes (SNC executives)…it is all a stitch up, as the Brits would say. Special boutique laws for Liberal friendly VIPs and Quebec, another set of laws for regular Canadians and nothing but shit and abuse for Canadians in Alberta and Saskatchewan.

    Because of this, I have little faith in the Supreme Court’s federal carbon tax decision. I suspect “the fix” will be in long before any Sask lawyer walks into that courtroom : a decision in favor of the Liberals, weak and convoluted legal justification second, followed by “shitloads of supportive op-eds” explaining/gloating about the Liberal friendly Supreme Court decision.

  20. Liberal control of the media — I had thought this was a self-evident fact hiding in plain sight. The idea that it will “come out” makes me chuckle, it’s rather like a headline reading

    SUN TO RISE IN EAST TOMORROW, SCIENTISTS ANNOUNCE

    Perhaps a more fruitful line of inquiry would be to discover all links between the Liberal Party and the judiciary. Then we might be getting somewhere. But I think most of us have assumed all along that mainstream media opinions are essentially those of the Liberal Party. Sometimes they shift a bit towards the NDP or some red Tory position. A range of viewpoints is allowed but it’s not very broad. For example, David Warren got more or less forced out of the mainstream media by continuous pressure by social justice warriors who objected to his annoying habit of telling uncomfortable truths. I happen to know David Warren, and while he may be as radical a conservative as most of the people who might read this, he’s certainly not as blunt in his way of speaking truth to power. Yet if he is blacklisted from public life, what chance do you think you would have for your views to be taken seriously in the corridors of power?

    I already know the answer to that by trial and error. Some truths that I held to be self-evident were more or less labelled as falsehoods in Ottawa, yet false in the sense of things you must not say, not things you cannot explain.

    It is only possible to explain anything to a person who comes willing to hear all sides of an argument. A person who has already decided that they will support The Party in every possible way will only consider an argument in terms of how it affects The Party. Within that broader paradigm, sometimes you get into narrower propositions involving the support of a leader. We will see some evidence of this from Trudeau loyalists but I think most Liberals will choose the fate of The Party and consider Justin to be an expedient loss. This will not much improve our lot because The Party will be sure to cough up another automaton to direct their public front while the private operation behind the scenes goes on as ever, unchallenged by anybody.

    I hope the nation proves me wrong. But I am not giving very good odds on this.

  22. Yet the legal squaw says herself it wasn’t illegal.

    I insult her because I have my doubts about her motives, there’s more here than meets the screen. Trudeau’s motives are, of course, transparent.

  23. Canada is a banana idiocracy

    progressive morons will re-elect Trudolt because, “muh feelings”, climate change, and trans-islamophobia

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