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SNC-Lavalin is the new Ad-Scam:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is denying that his office told former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould to help SNC-Lavalin avoid a criminal prosecution.

The Quebec engineering and construction giant has been facing legal trouble over allegations it paid millions of dollars in bribes to get government business in Libya, which would be a crime under Canadian law.

As attorney general, Wilson-Raybould could have become involved in the case against the company by directing federal prosecutors to negotiate a “remediation agreement,” a way of undoing damage without admitting the company itself was at fault for things particular employees did.

The Globe and Mail newspaper reports that SNC-Lavalin repeatedly lobbied Justin Trudeau’s aides for a deal and that his office leaned on Wilson-Raybould to make it happen.

More:

Sources say Ms. Wilson-Raybould, who was justice minister and attorney-general until she was shuffled to Veterans Affairs early this year, came under heavy pressure to persuade the Public Prosecution Service of Canada to change its mind.

Ms. Wilson-Raybould was unwilling to instruct the director of the public prosecution service, Kathleen Roussel, to negotiate a remediation agreement with SNC-Lavalin, according to sources who were granted anonymity to speak directly about what went on behind-the-scenes in the matter.

The Prime Minister’s Office issued a short statement when asked to comment on efforts to persuade Ms. Wilson-Raybould to intervene.

“Prime Minister’s Office did not direct the attorney-general to draw any conclusions on this matter,” press secretary Chantal Gagnon said in an e-mail to The Globe and Mail on Wednesday evening.

On Thursday at a transit-related appearance in Vaughan, Ont., Mr. Trudeau further denied that senior officials in the PMO “directed” Ms. Wilson-Raybould in her previous roles to intervene in the SNC-Lavalin case, but he would not say whether they tried to influence her to abandon a prosecution and trial of the Montreal corporate giant.

"The allegations reported in the story are false. At no time did I or my office direct the current or previous attorney-general to make any particular decision in this matter,” Mr. Trudeau told reporters.

The Globe and Mail never reported that officials in Mr. Trudeau’s office had directed Ms. Wilson-Raybould to take action – only that she was pressured to do so and declined.

And:

A week ago, former SNC-Lavalin CEO Pierre Duhaime pleaded guilty to what the Canadian Press described as “a charge of helping a public servant commit breach of trust for his role in a bribery scandal around the construction of a $1.3-billion Montreal hospital.”

Further:

“Those they met included Gerald Butts, principal secretary to the Prime Minister, and Mathieu Bouchard, Mr. Trudeau’s senior adviser on Quebec – whom they met 12 times. Mr. Trudeau’s senior policy adviser, Elder Marques, also met with company representatives.”
 
As Warren Kinsella – a former Liberal war room strategist under Chretien said:

“This revelation, if true, is a clear violation of section 139(2) of the Criminal Code.”

This section 139(2) of the Criminal Code:

Every one who wilfully attempts in any manner other than a manner described in subsection (1) to obstruct, pervert or defeat the course of justice is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years.

I'm sure it's no more a violation of ethics and law as the Aga Khan scandal.

Right?

And his office allegedly handled these things, just like his office didn't vet Jasper Atwal or Joshua Boyle. It's almost like someone is cushioning Justin before the election.




Getting your @$$ handed to you in an agreement in which you now have to beg the Americans, cap-in-hand, any time you want to deal with a third party can be pretty humiliating:

Andrew Leslie, the parliamentary secretary to Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland, said Wednesday he is confident the U.S. and Mexico will ratify the deal, but Canada won't interfere with each process. Canadians, he noted, would not want others trying to influence the domestic parliamentary process.

Rather, there is nothing Canada can do anyway.



In 2017, Justin approved of a Chinese takeover of a Montreal firm. This would allow the Chinese a technological advantage with a western country's help. Now, another communist country poses a threat to Canadian nationals and they're just not going to take it:

Five Canadian diplomats and their family members who became mysteriously ill while posted to Cuba are suing Ottawa for more than $28 million.

In a statement of claim filed Wednesday in Federal Court, the diplomats say the Canadian government failed to protect them, hid crucial information and downplayed the seriousness of the risks.

Leave. Them. There:

Two Canadian women have surrendered to U.S.-backed forces after fleeing the last patch of ISIS territory in Syria, according to a non-profit group that said it had encouraged them to give themselves up.

The women and their four children are the latest Canadians to be detained by the Syrian Democratic Forces, the Kurdish-led armed group that is poised to retake the final town under ISIS control.

Their surrender brings the number of Canadians held by the SDF to at least 20, mostly children. Five are women and four are men, including two self-admitted ISIS fighters from the Toronto area.

Did these alleged victims care that their husbands were abusing Yazidi women?:

Former ISIS sex slaves, who were given sanctuary in Canada, are again living in fear after being bombarded by voicemails and texts threatening rape and murder.

Five women and one 14-year-old girl have filed reports with York Regional Police. The victims are all Yazidis who survived an ISIS-led genocide in Iraq in 2014.

They have handed over to police recordings of the phone calls and screen grabs of the texts, which reference the Islamic State and include pictures of beheadings and armed Jihadis.

W5 has listened to the phone calls. In one, a man laughs as he says in Arabic: “I am the man who f****d you. I am your rapist.” A second caller denounces Yazidis as devil worshippers. And a third caller makes a graphic reference to rape.

The callers appear to have Iraqi, North African and Gulf state accents. York Regional Police have assembled a team to try to track where the calls are originating.

North African? Like this North African?:

More than a year after the United Nations asked countries to take in refugees living in slavery in Libya, Canada has begun resettling hundreds of them, the UN and the federal government said Wednesday.

The Liberal government has shown once again what it truly cares about and it isn't the rape victims it once fought to keep out.



Your place in the world, huh? So Russian or English couldn't do that for you?:

Liberal MP Marc Miller already made history two years ago when he gave the first speech in the House of Commons in Mohawk.

On Thursday, he did it again by being the first to do so while using new simultaneous translation services offered to parliamentarians. ...

“I want to be able to understand the language of the Mohawk people, people who have lived here long before my people arrived,” Miller said in Mohawk.

“I have discovered something that is more complicated than sharing words with one another. I have found that I am able to understand my place on earth which I did not appreciate before I began learning. It has now just begun to make sense to me how amazing the language is, how rich it is, how exceptional it is. It is a lot more complicated than my other languages.”

That's enough pretentious twaddle for today.

 
Your soft-headed virtue-signalling has been noted, Mr. Miller. You can go now.