You can say that again.
Jody Wilson-Raybould, having been burned one too many times, had let not only Justin have it but the rest of the PMO, too:
Sitting alone at a table in a packed basement room in Parliament’s West Block, Wilson-Raybould told the committee’s MPs that over a four-month period in late 2018 she was pressured by finance minister Bill Morneau and his staff, Clerk of the Privy Council Michael Wernick, senior aides in the Prime Minister’s Office including former principal secretary Gerald Butts and chief of staff Katie Telford, and even Prime Minister Justin Trudeau himself — all of whom were eager for her to direct federal prosecutors to defer the prosecution of SNC-Lavalin on corruption and fraud charges and negotiate a remediation agreement instead.
“For a period of approximately four months between September and December of 2018 I experienced a consistent and sustained effort by many people in the government to seek to politically interfere in the exercise of prosecutorial discretion,” Wilson-Raybould said.
Wilson-Raybould said partisan concerns were repeatedly raised in connection with the SNC-Lavalin case, including by Trudeau, who she claims pointed out to her in a September conversation that he was himself a Quebec MP and raised the political consequences of prosecuting a large Montreal-based company during the then-ongoing Quebec election.
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Telford alleged to have said that if JWR changed her mind in favour of SNC, Telford could "line up people who could write all kinds of op-eds to say what Jody was doing is proper.” #JUST— David Akin 🇨🇦 (@davidakin) February 27, 2019
Further.
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The PM told JWR that if SNC didn’t get a deferred prosecution there would be jobs lost and SNC would move from Montreal. JWR said she would not interfere with the decision to go to trial. #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/HDcF36dp8q— Mackenzie Gray (@Gray_Mackenzie) February 27, 2019
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.@Puglaas says on December 5th she met with the PM's former Principle Secretary and he told her he didn't like the law she was citing and that it was passed by Harper. JWR says she told him well that IS the law #cdnpoli #SNCLavalin— Mercedes Stephenson (@MercedesGlobal) February 27, 2019
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Now #LPC MP @iamIqraKhalid essentially says @PUglaas did something wrong, that she did not act appropriately, that she did not speak up. JWR in response categorically rejects premise of Khalid’s question.— David Akin 🇨🇦 (@davidakin) February 27, 2019
(Insert fat toad expression of humiliation and disappointment here)
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Asked why she didn't go to Trudeau to complain about the pressure being put on her re SNC-Lavalin, #Puglaas asked why she would go to the PM when, according to what she was told by the Privy Council Clerk, he was one of the sources of that pressure. #cdnpoli— Lorrie Goldstein (@sunlorrie) February 27, 2019
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The speaking notes for what can only be described as an explosive hearing.
Justin, incapable of responding to this or anything that points to his incompetence and stunning wrong-doing, did what he normally does in situations like these - he bolted:
Does say it all. @JustinTrudeau leaving for March break..wont be back till March 15th..run you rat..but you can't hide. #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/A8b6UXk5a6— MonsieurRondeau (@MonsieurRondeau) February 27, 2019
Then, when sufficiently far away, he responded to his former justice minister's testimony. He was so afraid, in fact, that he didn't even read it.
It didn't take long for calls for his resignation which he will never do because he is too proud, too immoral and too confident that the Chinese and their money are not through with him yet.
But some in Quebec are reacting to Justin like the stinky kid in class:
In the hours after Wilson-Raybould’s scathing testimony at a Commons justice committee Wednesday evening, commentary emanating from the home province of the embattled engineering firm, which is being prosecuted for corruption, took on a harsher tone. Chantal Hébert, a Montreal-based columnist for the Toronto Star and L’actualité, put it this way on a Radio-Canada morning radio show Thursday: After a review of the newspapers, she said in French, “nobody is a friend of Trudeau this morning.”
I'll believe that when la belle province votes Justin out of his seat in the Papineau riding and slaps the cuffs on SNC-Lavalin for its part in corrupt dealings in Libya, including treating Qaddafi's son to hookers.
To which Justin robotically answers:
Did he even hear or understand the question?
I'm guessing not.
In the mean time, Justin is considering how long Jody should remain in the Liberal Party. She is so not coming to his birthday party.
No longer wanting a public inquiry (and certainly not a police investigation) to decide matters, Justin now wants to leave this entire debacle in the hands of a guy he hired to make things like this go away:
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says it will be up to the country’s ethics watchdog to decide who is telling the truth in the SNC-Lavalin affair — himself, or former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould.
Imagine the spectacle if this does not go away.
(Paws up)
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