With accusations of SNC-Lavalin corruption extending to nine countries, including Canada, there is good reason to believe that the practice was systemic, and that the rot may extend to government officials and government departments.
Update
Recommended listening: Podcast of the Breckenridge Radio. (Note: the original quoted comment contained an error in fact, so I’ve edited to remove that)
h/t Joe
If you listen to the Podcast of the Breckenridge Radio, and the interview of the lawyer from Calgary it is very bad. SNC-Lavalin is now buying the KinderMorgan Pipeline. Very sweet deal. The level of corruption in Canada is incredible. https://omny.fm/shows/afternoons-with-rob-breakenridge/who-s-who-the-history-of-those-involved-in-the-tru
Then at least it would get built then.
“… the rot may extend to government officials and government departments.”
For some reason, people like Peter Strzok and Hillary Clinton come to mind.
The rot in governments, especially at the senior levels where accountability is less and less able to take hold, is far more common than we realize or are willing to admit.
I contend that rot in governments is the rule, not the exception, especially at the senior levels.
It’s bad enough in the private world. It gets really bad with monopolies such as governments.
Fully agreed Gary. The fact that there is anti-monopoly legislation in place for the economy, but never for the government (or government unions) has meant that that is where the rot will become the deepest and most likely to fester.
Precisely! “Lock her up” … which is STILL being chanted by Trump supporters at his Rallies … has been mocked and derided by the so-called intelligentsia who believe SHE is “too big to lock up”. I beg to differ. The PEOPLE should be in-charge … the PEOPLE will decide whom should face legal action based on HER/their misdeeds. I believe this is precisely what the Grand Jury process is all about. It is far past time to empanel a Grand Jury to review the full details of HER misdeeds … along with all HER enablers in the FBI and DOJ … and Obama cabinet.
Same with SNC …
The PEOPLE will determine who gets locked up … not the bureaucrats who are conflicted by the need to cover their own asses.
Bring back Madame Defarge and get her more wool!
bingo !!! post of the week here, and its only Sunday !!!!
it’s humahn nature at werk. matters *little* where one is on the ideology spectrum, the pernicious greed and criminality in the presence of all that power and wealth is far, far too much for the avg humahn psyche, brain and conscience to contain and master.
let alone a trust fund brat TURD like TURDoo.
just look at the times jackpot winners squander the insurance, security and lifeblood of their family line; it is simply far too much to handle for avg citoyen. some can do quite well, they truly are exceptional and I suppose probability being like it is, very telling about how rare that internal discipline is.
I have yet to see a hard core socialist rise above the rot and temptation. quite the opposite in fact.
They are very worried about what might come out at testimony, look how long it took them to make maneuvers to let JWR speak and how they used their majority to vote down having Butts testify under oath.
The whole things raise suspicion to the highest level.
We cannot let this fade away, it’s corruption 101 on display.
One glaring question remains, why did Butts resign when he did, what is the truth?
So if it is true that SNC is buying Kindermorgan then what has essentially happened is that the federal government expropriated it to turn over to SNC. Think about that.
Yes ,and many in the PMO get their bank accounts topped up with taxpayers $$$$ .It is historically how SNC and the liberals do business,the party of thieves !
The headline is misleading. If you listen to the full podcast, the guest only joked about the SNC/Lavelin purchase.
Thanks, I caught that upon listening, too and have updated the post.
Well now that Great Leader Kim Sung Trudeau has solved the Lavalin scandal, he and is family are burning jet fuel at taxpayer expense to sunny Florida.
Family time…he won’t be needing a tickle trunk for this trip. Maybe he’ll be hitting Disney World and getting a few selfies with Goofy, Mickey and Minnie.
will they make a point of clarifying which one is ‘goofy’ ?
Hb, I believe you have won the Internet today. 🙂
Well Disney World does have homosexual parades now, so it would make sense if he went there.
Yep, a carbon tax so we have to pay extra to drive, fly, and heat our homes. Meanwhile the ‘climate virtuous’ Turd has vacationed in Whistler and now Florida.
Justin what’s wrong with the vacation home we tax payers provide for you?
If you actually listen to the Breakenridge podcast the idea of SNC Lavalin buying the Kinder Morgan pipeline is a JOKE! (as in not a fact)
DPA’s are a travesty in and of themselves.
Legislation right out of a 3rd world shithole country.
I don’t care if the US or Britain has one and that is reason enough for Canada to follow suit. DPA’s promote corruption and no modern first world country should even contemplate legislation of this kind. We should hold ourselves to a higher standard.
These things are a race to the bottom.
abtrapper, 100% in agreement.
The rationalization that it would be used very sparingly in only certain special situations should not mollify us.
NO DPAs. Period.
It would normalize, routinize corruption (even more).
We don’t want this investigation to go too far,just far enough to put a few people we don’t like out of the political arena. A complete, honest and thorough investigation would expose the true corruption of our system and Canadians are not prepared for that. We MUST maintain the illusion of a system of the people, for the people, by the people,at all costs, or see the Nation suffer a massive nervous breakdown.
Make no mistake, BOTH federal Parties are in cahoots with the cabal who own Canada, right up to their red or blue necks. Not every single MP of course, but the Party chiefs, who all owe something to somebody from that cabal. To believe otherwise is to indulge in fantasy. I’ve heard of and met several idealistic MP’s who travelled to Ottawa full of zeal,only to discover there are RULES, and you play by those rules or perish, relegated to the backbenches forever,or until the next election, whichever comes first.
Trudeau’s biggest crime is his ineptitude not surprising in a low-IQ dilletante, but even more shocking is Gerald Butts ineptitude. The man is said to have a genius IQ, which combined with $2 will get you a coffee, but it’s difficult to discern whether this current mess was a gross miscalculation on Butts part, or brought about by his massive hubris and the belief he’s a god who walks among peasants and can do no wrong.
The guy who’s truly caught between the proverbial situation of your choice is the new A-G David Lametti, who appears to be the epitome of the loyal Party suckhole who will do whatever is necessary and take the flack,for a suitable reward downstream, like after he retires from politics. Every political Party on Earth is chock full of these people,which is how we ended up with the rotten and corrupted system we have now.
Scheer had better stop with the “Resign Mr.Trudeau” bullshit or he might get his wish, and we will watch the squeaky-clean Marc Garneau win the next election on a platform of having “cleaned house”.
Meanwhile, we wait for the SNC furor to subside, then the A-G will work out an “accommodation” satisfactory to all parties concerned, but mostly la cabal du Quebec, the only really important players in this production.
At this point it is useless to drum on calling for Trudeau to resign, it just won’t happen. We need to keep digging and exposing the information we get from the digs, keep them on edge. The Liberals are divided, I wouldn’t underestimate the strength of the women who have stood up to the cabal, they are not going to go quietly into the night.
We need Trudeau now more than ever, he is well on his way to defeat no matter who is pulling his strings. Conservatives have to vote Conservative to get rid of, at best incompetence, at worst corruption.
“Scheer had better stop with the “Resign Mr.Trudeau” bullshit or he might get his wish” Don Morris AKA Butts
and if you treat it like a Nothing Burger…99% of the Voters will punish YOU. If you stand for nothing ..You fall
I wouldn’t be surprised if the rot extended to the prosecutors who slow walked the trial against the SNC execs that had their cases tossed…….heck, check the judges to!
After all, all of the above are Quebecers!
Wherever there are “Queerbekers” or “language hires” in any Government department you can be guaranteed that corruption and incompetence is rampant… the Gomery inquiry constantly illustrated this culture of corruption… Whenever stolen cash was needed for Liberal gangster purposes (“tell them its for bilingualism”) ‘bilingualism” being a code word for taxpayer money anytime anywhere without accountability… as it was intended of course. A culture of corruption, thats what Trudopia is all about… sickening degradation.
in the category of, ‘have I got this right?’, let me pose the Q:
the TURDoo hitails to a remote northern community to apologize for events begun >70 yrs ago.
whilst REFUSING to apologize for events happening RIGHT NOW.
so, do LIEberals stockpile apologies and throw them ‘out there’ as a distraction from ginormous scandals?
are they custom made or generic?
does this mean we have to wait 70 fcukin YEARS for a LIEberal to apologize for the lavalin scandal?
just[in] askin’ . . . . . . .
Yeah, it is becoming increasingly clear; no one is going to jail. No one is losing a pension. No one is losing a job. No one is losing an office. No one is sending a strongly worded letter to the editor of any papers. Carbon tax is not going away. No pipelines are ever getting built. No Liberals are ever going to be punished. No taxes are ever going down. “Retirement” is a lie, and your registered savings are going to be confiscated.
Well said Kevin… this is a Liberal Party country, designed and imposed by the Liberal Party for the benefit of the Liberal party.
Maybe but when JWR testifies later this week all bets are off.
If her testimony indicates criminal wrongdoing it will be hard to ignore.
I’m amazed (not really) the press aren’t on the heels of Scott Brison. I think the bigger story will be the Davey/Irving shipyard deal which precipitated Brison leaving – apparently a week with his kids was sufficient to cause him pack his bags for Toronto and a cushy job with BMO.
BMO, on whose board of directors sits Kevin Lynch, former Clerk of the Privy Council and apparently, colleague and good friend of the current Clerk, Michael Wernick. Lynch is co-incidentally, also Chairman of the Board at SNC-Lavalin. So how does this bring BMO, one of Canada’s biggest financiers into play?
I maintain the Liberals will give SNC their coveted DPA despite the political fallout. They are prepared if necessary to lose the next election, rather than have (1) SNC go to trial because it would lead to (2) Scott Brison and the whole Davey Shipyard and Vice-Admiral Mark Norman can of worms to be examined. I predict SNC will get their DPA and the Mark Norman charges will be dropped. Mr. Norman will sue and rightfully so – and Canadian taxpayers will pay for it all before going back to sleep.
This:
https://youtu.be/sjC1LnGtBq4
It was never about jobs..Here is proof.
Elsewhere, some have claimed that the employees would lose their jobs if SNC is convicted, because the company would face a ban on federal contracts.
That too is false.
The Ineligibility and Suspension Policy, which contains the ban on contracts for corporate criminals, includes a “Public Interest Exception” to avoid “significant adverse impact” on the “…economic or financial well-being of the people of Canada”. All that is required is for the Deputy Minister of Public Procurement to sign an “Administrative Agreement” with the offending company to lift the ban.
In fact, the government had already signed such a deal with SNC in December 2015, allowing the company to continue federal contracts, even though it had been banned for the original corruption charges.
The government is already working on plans to grant further exceptions to companies even after conviction. In other words, the claim that Trudeau needed to block the prosecution so SNC could keep getting government contracts is plainly false.
https://www.withpierre.ca/notaboutjobs
Notice the claim “In fact, the government had already signed such a deal with SNC in December 2015, allowing the company to continue federal contracts, even though it had been banned for the original corruption charges.”
So its not about jobs. Its obviously a cover up. So the question now is; “What does Justin know and when did he know it?”
The podcast demonstrates the extent of green infiltration to virtually every (mostly useless) federal ministry along with the Spawn’s office and Alberta’s regulators. The suicidal cancer of Green theocracy is alive and well in Canada and substantially paid for by US foundations. There was a time when that would have concerned most Canadians. I guess until they experience real poverty, that won’t change.
I agree. That podcast was very revealing about the extent to which our governments have been infiltrated by those who want to destroy our economic well being. There is a lot of treason involved with this. I expect that Notely is privately chortling about the destruction she and her buddy Trudeauand their hired guns with the aid of foreign foundations have wrought, all the while shedding crocodile tears about job loses and lost economy.
Wait til Nutley’s appointees ban hydraulic fracturing.
I expect that might well be on the horizon. Is there any evidence that fracking was being blamed for the tremors near Red Deer?
I read a paper in Science a few months ago that suggested that tremors in the Fox Creek area were caused by fracking. I wasn’t convinced.
If Wilson Raybould wants to speak she needs to leave the party and go for it….what’s keeping her there?