Just a Reminder

Justin Trudeau is a corrupt scumbag:

Justin Trudeau, who came into office vowing to set the gold standard for transparency and ethical behaviour, became Wednesday the first prime minister found to have violated federal conflict of interest rules.

Federal ethics commissioner Mary Dawson concluded Trudeau violated the rules when he vacationed last Christmas at the private Bahamian island owned by the Aga Khan and when his wife and children vacationed on the same island months earlier in March 2016.

Dawson found the Trudeaus' visit to the island — and the prime minister hopping aboard the Aga Khan's private helicopter to get there — broke sections of the Conflict of Interest Act that prohibits a minister or any member of their family from accepting gifts or “advantages” that could reasonably be seen as influencing government decisions.

Moreover, she found Trudeau didn't properly recuse himself on two occasions in May 2016 from private meetings about the Aga Khan and a $15-million grant to the billionaire philanthropist's endowment fund of the Global Centre for Pluralism.

The outgoing ethics commissioner's long-awaited report suggested Trudeau could have avoided this outcome had he come to her before going on the trip that began on Dec. 26, 2016. She concluded he failed to follow his own ethics rules for cabinet ministers and that he should have recognized that going on the trip would be seen as a real or apparent conflict of interest.

And: 

His interpretation of events is fascinating. His father, former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, had formed a firm friendship with the Aga Khan while he was in office, and in 1983 the two families went on a vacation to the Greek islands. He even revealed he refers to the Aga Khan as “Uncle K.”

Yet the younger Trudeau had no interactions with the Aga Khan in the 30 years between that vacation and his election as Liberal leader in 2013, with the exception of his father’s funeral in 2000, where he said he felt “instant recognition, instant closeness” to the Aga Khan.

Dawson asked why he had not maintained relations in the interim. Trudeau replied that as a teacher, he did not feel he had attained the level of success or authority that would have allowed him to have a peer-to-peer relationship. It was only when he became leader of the party that he became comfortable enough to feel the two could have conversations as equals.

Dawson did not buy this uncharacteristic display of humility and concluded that while she was of the view that Trudeau and the Aga Khan have developed a warm relationship based on family history, “I also see it as unlikely that the invitation would have been given to Mr. Trudeau or his family had there not been official interaction between the government of Canada and the Aga Khan and had Mr. Trudeau not become a significant player on the Canadian political scene.”

(Sidebar: Mary Dawson just noticed this and during the parliamentary Christmas break, too.)

And this:

Sajjan said Canadian troops in the region take measures to remain safe, but was noncommittal on whether the Liberal government will still go through with its plans to arm the Kurds. Canadian special forces had been providing training to Kurdish troops, but that is on hold as the government sorts out its next move.

Perhaps the troops should be returned to Canada to protect against rape and beheadings Trudeau is sure won't happen.