Social Trudeau in ethics hot water again.

Trudeau only won because people were sick of 9 years of Harper. It should be like in the US where people can't run a third time, fuck that guy.
 
brackis1 said:
LOL your cliffnote is awful.
Try again?
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Canadian engineering firm broke the law
Attorney general would not overturn prosicutors decision to prosecute
Justin preasured AG to overrule prosecutor.

Either Justin believes the rules don't apply to him or he honestly believes he did nothing wrong (again). Either way, dude is untrustworthy
 
So he's in trouble for doing the kind of thing that Trump was crying about that the Swedish prime minister wouldn't do? Good, the politicians should not get to influence matters of law, except to make new laws through the proper channels.
 
edit sorry guys I did not see the preexisting thread. Please merge, dump or delete this thread.


I am not exactly surprised by this I have always thought Trudeau came across as fake and slimy.


https://www.courthousenews.com/commissioner-finds-justin-trudeau-violated-ethics/

TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s ethics commissioner said Wednesday that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau improperly pressured a former attorney general to stop the criminal prosecution of a company, a development that could imperil his re-election chances.

The report comes just before the official start of campaigning for the Oct. 21 general election and threatens to re-inflame a scandal that rocked the government this year, causing a drop in poll ratings that had since abated.

Ethics commissioner Mario Dion said Trudeau’s attempts to influence the then-attorney general and justice minister, Jody Wilson-Raybould, violated the constitutional principle of prosecutorial independence.

“The prime minister, directly and through his senior officials, used various means to exert influence over Ms. Wilson-Raybould,” Dion wrote.

“The authority of the prime minister and his office was used to circumvent, undermine and ultimately attempt to discredit the decision of the director of public prosecutions as well as the authority of Ms. Wilson-Raybould.”

Trudeau said at a news conference that he takes responsibility “for everything,” but said he “can’t apologize for standing up for Canadian jobs.”

Wilson-Raybould believes she was demoted from her role as attorney general and justice minister to veterans’ affairs minister in January because she didn’t give in to pressure to enter into a remediation agreement with a Canadian company accused of bribing officials in Libya.

That solution would avoid a potential criminal conviction that would bar Quebec engineering giant SNC-Lavalin from receiving any federal government business for a decade. The company is a major employer with 9,000 employees in Canada and about 50,000 worldwide.

The report said Trudeau “directed his staff to find a solution that would safeguard SNC-Lavalin’s business interest in Canada.”

“What happened over the past year shouldn’t have happened,” Trudeau said. “I take responsibility for the mistakes that I made. At the same time, we learned many lessons.”

But Trudeau said he did not agree that any contact with the attorney general on the issue was inappropriate. He said his job is to consider the impact decisions have on Canadians.

He said that deferred prosecution agreements are frequently used in many countries and it would be up to his new justice minister on whether the company gets one.

The scandal led to multiple resignations, including that of Gerry Butts, Trudeau’s top aide and best friend. And it damaged the party for weeks. Butts has since rejoined Trudeau’s re-election campaign team.

Wilson-Raybould, who resigned from Cabinet before she was ousted from the Liberal party caucus, said the report “represents a vindication of the independent role of the attorney general.”

Opposition Conservative leader Andrew Scheer renewed calls for police to investigate and called SNC-Lavalin a Liberal-linked corporation that defrauded some of the poorest people on Earth.

Scheer said Trudeau hasn’t lived up to promises to be open and honest when he was elected.

“Trudeau may not face a court of law for his role in this scandal, but he will have to face the Canadian people over the next few weeks,” Scheer said.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said it is “examining this matter carefully with all available information and will take appropriate actions as required” and declined further comment.

Nelson Wiseman, a political science professor at the University of Toronto, said the report is very damaging and the scandal could topple Trudeau’s Liberal government.

“The SNC-Lavalin controversy is certainly reignited and fits with the Conservative narrative that the Trudeau is no angel,” Wiseman said. “I expect the Liberals to drop in the polls by 5 percent or so. Whether they can recover by election day is an open question. I wouldn’t bet on it.”
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This worm will be out in October.
 
This is pretty good CTV coverage. The Toronto Sun journalist and the NDP strategist lay it out perfectly here. While the liberal vermin scum lies like it's nothing, as usual.

 
Squarechoke said:
So he's in trouble for doing the kind of thing that Trump was crying about that the Swedish prime minister wouldn't do? Good, the politicians should not get to influence matters of law, except to make new laws through the proper channels.
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But but Trump though!!!
 
Snackbar said:
https://nationalpost.com/news/polit...-snc-lavalin-affair-ethics-commissioner-rules

The guy who Trudeau put in place as the new ethics commissioner couldn't even ignore this one.
With the new book CBC has coming out trying to vindicate him and demonize JWR this couldn't have come at a better time.

Cliffs for thumb challenged neck beards who can't see SNC lavalin in the header:

Earlier this year Trudeau was accused of putting undue pressure on the then Justice Minister and AG Jody Wilson Raybould, to defer prosecution of SNC lavalin, a Quebec engineering firm. JWR went public and was subsequently removed from her position, to Vet. Affairs, and then removed from caucus all together.
Now the Ethics commissioner has found Trudeau breached conflict of interest law in his dealing with JWR and the SNC file.

If you're not from Canada I apologize for not clarifying, if you are from Canada and this is all new to you, please don't vote.
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Only people who would already vote against him really care about this.

No liberal voters will be dissuaded.
 
Tropodan said:
This is pretty good CTV coverage. The Toronto Sun journalist and the NDP strategist lay it out perfectly here. While the liberal vermin scum lies like it's nothing, as usual.

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Toronto Sun is not a reliable news source.
 
Not A Theist said:
I'm voting NDP this round. In Canada we have a choice - center right, center left, or left. If you keep voting liberal after stuff like this you're either ignorant, making excuses, or just don't care, because there is no binary of the parties like in the U.S.
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Who is the Left wing party? NDP is still center left.
 
Trudeau seems to be a dumbass. A well meaning one but still a dumbass.

Part of me feels bad for the guy but part of me is also like "stop being a fucking twat."
 
Tropodan said:
Yes they are. You've been watching too much CBC, which is not a credible news source.
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CBC def leans Left, but is still critical of JT when he pulls shit.

The Sun is a Right Wing propaganda rag. Publishes lies and bigotted rhetoric.

In fact, all PostMedia publications are becoming Right Wing rags with Andrew McLeod taking over.
 
Renard said:
Trudeau only won because people were sick of 9 years of Harper. It should be like in the US where people can't run a third time, fuck that guy.
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You do realize we do not vote for the PM?

Harper lost b/c he ran out of steam and ideas. I liked his govt, except for this rabid pro-Israel stance.
 
Not A Theist said:
Honestly, most of the people I know who were Liberal voters who were upset by it have either forgotten about it or rationalized it away. I don't see this impacting the polls much.
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Those liberals you speak of are scum.

It will impact the polls tremendously as it compounds with everything else hes done. Hes corrupt, incompetent, dishonest, and quite frankly of extremely low character.

Most canadians will see this and vote conservative, NDP, or Green party.

The liberals capitalized wonderfully on the timing of this SJW and feminist bullshit during the last campaign and went full libtard. But they didnt realize they won mostly because people were sick of Harper after the CBC and the leftist news media campaigned against him in tandem with the liberal party.
 
Wet Blanket said:
CBC def leans Left, but is still critical of JT when he pulls shit.

The Sun is a Right Wing propaganda rag. Publishes lies and bigotted rhetoric.

In fact, all PostMedia publications are becoming Right Wing rags with Andrew McLeod taking over.
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You're delusional and the left is totally intellectually bankrupt. That's why you resort to lying like you did with this post, saying they post bigoted rhetoric. That's a lie and I'm calling you out on that.

You have been indoctrinated to believe opposing views to the leftist narrative are "right wing" and therefore bad.

Drink some water.

The CBC is a radical leftist arm of the liberal party and hasn't shown to be adequate in covering Trudeaus blunders at all. That's another lie.
 
Wet Blanket said:
Who is the Left wing party? NDP is still center left.
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I can see some play in the joints and semantic niggling that could lead one to say they're center left but given a combination of their socialist roots and support of things like the Leap Manifesto and almost any popular left-leaning issue you can name, I'd put them as out of the center myself federally. Some of their provincial parties, particularly Alberta's, has bit the bullet of political reality and moved far to the right of the party at large, but that's not the norm for the party.

Again, I think this will come down to semantics as we're navigating fairly complex and somewhat nebulous political designations, but what makes you say they're center left rather than just left? Also, keep in mind, I don't classify them as far left. I just don't see them, as they are today, doing much to put them in the center.
 
Tropodan said:
You're delusional and the left is totally intellectually bankrupt. That's why you resort to lying you did with this post, saying they post bigoted rhetoric. That's a lie and I'm calling you out on that.

You have been indoctrinated to believe opposing views to the leftist narrative are "right wing" and therefore bad.

Drink some water.

The CBC is a radical leftist arm of the liberal party and hasn't shown to be adequate in covering Trudeaus blunders at all. That's another lie.
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You are pretty far down the tinfoil rabbit hole my friend. Good luck.
 
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