Category: SNC Lavalin

Oh, Shiny Prime Minister!

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(It’s probably nothing).

Bumped for morning update: Trudeau’s trip to Regina has been “abruptly cancelled”. No surprise, as the Canadian Tire stunt was tacked on so the taxpayer would pick up the tab for a Goodale fundraiser.

A “political civil war”? What hath Scott Brison wrought?

Riding Mass Transit Is like Inviting 30 Quebec Lobbyists Into Your Car

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A brown paper bag just doesn’t buy what it used to.

Ottawa’s $2.1-billion light rail system, supposed to be finished by the end of this month, will not only miss its third completion deadline but is experiencing issues far more serious than city officials have led the public to believe, according to internal reports obtained by CBC.
 
The reports from the city’s rail operations show a litany of issues with the Confederation Line — the east-west system being built by the SNC Lavalin-led Rideau Transit Group — especially when it comes to the system’s ability to handle Ottawa winters.
 
“Vehicles are currently unreliable to the point that it has not been demonstrated that operations can be sustained during a winter weather event,” according to one report from last week.
 
The reports say that “panels are coming loose and breaking on LRVs [light-rail vehicles] due to snow building up on the vehicles,” and that snow and ice are “frequently causing the doors to freeze shut.”
 
Both brakes and bogies — the underframe of the rail car that holds the wheels — also freeze up if the vehicles “sit for any amount of time” outdoors during a snowfall.

The Libranos: SNC Lavalin

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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).

The Libranos v. Wilson-Raybould: Open Thread

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Bumped with continuing updates and links:

Sure, “Jody”. Wilson-Raybould says PMO restricting her ability to ‘speak freely’ at justice committee.

“The OIC addresses only my time as attorney general of Canada and therefore does nothing to release me from any restrictions that apply to communications while I served as minister of veterans affairs and in relation to my resignation from that post or my presentation to cabinet after I had resigned,” she said in the letter.

As if Trudeau’s going to be seen putting another Indian in jail.

I expect restrictions-of-the-Order-don’t-allow-me-to-speak-my-truth testimony that throws the media ball back into the Trudeau court, and not much else. Check CPAC for a live feed at 3:15 ET.

Early in her testimony, I’ll give her due credit: “veiled threats”. She’s getting right to the point.

With her opening statement complete…

Pretty much.

This too.

I retract my initial skepticism. As summarized in the comments – “She has chucked PM Trudeau and his whole Liberal cabal right under the freaking bus.” In my defense, I underestimated the stupidity of Trudeau and his band of merry idiots.

“Bombshell” is not to strong a word for her testimony. Where it goes from here, who knows? It depends on whether the paid media is satisfied with more resignations or if they pick up the torches and go for the head. But never underestimate the tenacity of a Liberal with a sub-80 IQ.

I may stay up for this: BREAKING – Prime Minister #Trudeau will now speak to reporters at 8:00 PM ET tonight.

And for those who missed it, Wilson-Raybould just compared Trudeau to Nixon.

I’m seeing a fair bit of this.

Question of the Day: If Trudeau was OK with what we heard… WTF does he NOT want us to hear?

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From “truth to power” to “silence for comfy fur”. She’s a Liberal, after all.

Update: As if by design…

A Quebec court judge stayed charges of fraud and bribery against former SNC-Lavalin executive Stéphane Roy Tuesday, ruling his right to a trial within a reasonable time had been violated.
 
Judge Patricia Compagnone said delays caused by the Crown are an example of the “culture of complacency” the Supreme Court of Canada deplored in its 2016 Jordan decision limiting the length of legal proceedings. She added that prosecutors failed to show they tried to avoid unreasonable delays in the case, which began when Roy was first charged in 2014. […]

 
Prosecutor Frédéric Hivon said the Crown will take the time to analyze the ruling before deciding whether to appeal.

Isn’t that also JWR’s department?

And then, there’s this: Trudeau spoke to Wilson-Raybould after prosecutors refused SNC-Lavalin deal

Just another day in Libranoda. Someone should break it to Furniture Boy that his hero’s been bought.

The Libranos: SNC Lavalin … Breaking…

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“denies allegations” — Gerald Butts resigns as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s principal secretary…

Hmmm.

More.

The Libranos: SNC Lavalin

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REMAIN CALM.


THE PRIME MINISTER HAS THE SITUATION UNDER CONTROL.

While all the intrigue continues to swell over the federal charges it faces for corruption — as in greasing grimy palms in Libya with multi-millions to secure contracts (an accepted cost of doing business in many parts of the world) — Lavalin is apparently in a possibly similar-fact but less-publicized legal pickle closer to the home front.
 
According to a report by the Canadian Press news agency, court documents show prosecutors in Quebec are working with the RCMP on the possibility of laying new criminal charges against Lavalin linked to a contract to refurbish Montreal’s Jacques Cartier Bridge.

Related: Guess who owns 19.9% of SNC Lavalin?

The Libranos: SNC Lavalin

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It’s been years since I read Bourque. These days, it’s worth an exception.

This morning, overheard at Nate’s Deli one block south of the West Block in downtown Ottawa, is a savory suggestion that at least 3 and as many as 7 Liberal MPs are ready to bolt from the Liberal caucus if Jody exits the team, including one high profile cabinet minister .. >>> And perhaps equally troubling is news out of the PMO from a person extremely close to the action that heads are about to roll inside the bunker, including the abrupt exit of one of the PM’s top adjuncts (a power struggle is underway), possibly couched as a diplomatic posting to some exotic location half way around the world. Apparently the natives are restless and the leadership is in full panic mode ..

The Libranos: SNC Lavalin

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CBC;

Jody Wilson-Raybould — the former justice minister at the centre of claims that the Prime Minister’s Office pressured her to help Quebec-based engineering firm SNC-Lavalin avoid criminal prosecution — has resigned from cabinet.
 
She tweeted a link to her resignation letter this morning.

The CBC quotes the letter only briefly, omitting some of the more interesting passages.

Oddly enough.

Related (from yesterday). Let Justin do the mansplainin’.

Sunny ways.

Oh, Shiny Librano!

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Pay to play. (link fixed!)

Since he became Liberal leader in April 2013, gifts to the Foundation have increased significantly. Donations went from $172,211 in 2015 to $731,753 in 2016, while foreign donations from 0 in 2007 to $535,000 in 2016.
 
Some of Canada’s largest corporations including Air Canada, BMO, Suncor and Resolute Forest Products — have sponsored Trudeau Foundation conferences. While others like Bombardier even have members of their board of directors on the board of the Trudeau Foundation.

Related! Liberals to block opposition probe into SNC Lavalin…

Update: the BLAHBLAHBLAH15MINUTESTORY Media

The Libranos: SNC Lavalin

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…it’s the sort of thing that can destroy governments.

I don’t know who the Globe’s sources are, and I’ve learned that attempts to guess another reporter’s sources usually miss the mark by a mile. But let me make this general observation about the Liberal Party of Canada and Justin Trudeau’s PMO. In recent months I have been increasingly critical of the PMO and especially of Trudeau’s principal secretary, Gerald Butts. Frankly it hasn’t been great fun. I don’t get a kick out of being that specific in criticisms of a government. And typically, when you say “PM’s staff,” no matter who the PM is, what you really mean is “the PM.” But the way this government hoses money around for show sickens me.
 
What I’ve noticed is that when I have been bluntly critical of Trudeau’s PMO, no Liberal in Canada, outside the PMO, has reached out to criticize me, to gently try to correct perceptions, or otherwise to suggest I’m off-track. In fact, in a large number of cases, the response has been quite the opposite. I hear things like “Thank God” and “About time” and “I’ve been loving those columns.”

Sure. Let’s check back again in October.

Update: Wilson-Raybould’s father, Bill Wilson, said in a Facebook post Thursday that his daughter’s cabinet demotion “makes sense now — ugly political sense.” He predicted “history will prove that she did the right thing.”

Related: Do you remember when that SNC-Lavalin Staffer organized that Pro-Assad Rally at Queen’s Park?

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