SNC-Lavalin Scandal Just Gets Worse

The latest resignation of a Minister from the Trudeau Cabinet is the worst blow yet for the Liberals.  Minister of Treasury Board, Jane Philpott, released a letter saying among other things - "It is a fundamental doctrine of the rule of law that our attorney general should not be subjected to political pressure or interference regarding the exercise of her prosecutorial discretion in criminal cases. Sadly, I have lost confidence in how the government has dealt with this matter and in how it has responded to the issues raised."

This is the strongest condemnation of Trudeau and his gang yet, and, noting its source, the most devastating.  Trudeau and gang stand accused of acting contrary to the rule of law.  Ms. Philpott was blunt and direct.  How are the government's spin doctors going to spin that into something innocent?

See the article by Matt Gurney at web address: 

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/matt-gurney-a-brutally-clear-philpott-leaves-no-room-for-liberal-spin

Will the remaining Liberal MPs rally round Trudeau and gang to support him, come hell or high water?  This remains to be seen.  It is, of course, possible, that principle may vanquish blind loyalty, and a vote of non-confidence could precipitate the fall of the government.  It may be a bit premature to predict that at this time.  Keep watching.  If it happens, it would be completely deserved.

More thoughts on the SNC-Lavalin Scandal

Terence Corcoran, of the Financial Post has it right in his article at:

https://business.financialpost.com/opinion/terence-corcoran-snc-lavalin-would-get-a-deal-anywhere-else-why-not-here

Perhaps it is the holier than thou attitude of the Trudeau Liberals and the Attorney
General in particular.  Will we ever know?  As I understand it, the crimes of SNC-Lavalin relate, not to their plying the Trudeau Liberals with mucho dinero as corrupt campaign financing, but to the bribes paid to the completely corrupt Gaddafi regime in Libya.  Almost every major corporation doing business with those creeps pays bribes.  Nothing new there.  No harm done at home in Canada.  Why cause SNC-Lavelin to fail and leave Canada?

The real problem seems to be that the Liberals are too damned high and mighty moralistically-speaking to own up to why they wanted to help resolve the case lawfully by a so-called 'remedial agreement', just as most other countries deal with such problems.  Perhaps an overly moralistic Attorney General did not get the message.  Hoist by their own petard, they were - to quote how Yoda, the Jedi would have phrased it.  Just another instance of incompetence by the Trudeau Liberals captured by their ideological purity fetish.  For this, and many other gaffes and failures, they deserve to go down.  Its like petulant children in control of the family.

This is how I imagine the NDP would handle such a problem.  They are cut from the same cloth as  JT.  The big problem, is they are puppets of the unions that finance them and their only loyalty is to the unions and not to Canada.  I wonder how it feels to be in the clutches of those corrupt forces?

The Conservatives, under Scheer, may be able to put together a more mature government, but little of that is evident so far.


The only honest party on the horizon, Maxime Bernier's Peoples Party of Canada, is the only one apparently not dominated by compromises of principle typical of today's politics.  His chances of winning the next election seem slim.  Too bad.