Thus, as former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien said when his leadership was questioned by the Liberal rank and file, "I am the Leader. What can they do?" To which question the answer is nothing — so long as the Liberals lead in the polls.
But when the polls turn, or an election is lost, Liberals make short shrift of the leader. Thus of Liberal leaders past, the last three, Martin, Dion, and Ignatieff, all were gone within months of an election loss.
Now, seven months before an election, the polls have turned against Trudeau. What to do? Boot the pretty boy for someone able to think their way out of a paper bag.
The technical grounds for a prime ministerial defenestration are today once again concisely set forth by Andrew Coyne. The truly sordid, indeed grossly evil, character of those whose actions have brought Justin Trudeau to a deserved final public appearance on the scaffold are set forth in this National Observer article, accessible today without a subscription by way of Bourque.org.
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A further aggravating circumstance is that this was not a classic case of pure bribery. SNC knowingly enabled and overlooked monstrous tyranny and abuse.
The company cannot pretend it was unaware of Gaddafi's vicious cruelty while expensing his son Saadi Gaddafi's prostitutes, lavish lifestyle, and showering him with millions of dollars a year. The company financed his soccer aspirations and sponsored his team despite widespread reports that, just a few years earlier, his bodyguards had opened fire on soccer fans for booing a referee favouring him. Between 20 and 50 were killed in the ensuing chaos.Then there was Bashir al-Rayani, a professional soccer coach who challenged Saadi Gaddafi in 2005, only to disappear shortly before his bludgeoned body was dumped near his home. According to witnesses, al-Rayani was last seen alive at Gaddafi's seaside villa. And still, the reported gusher of cash to Saadi from SNC-Lavalin never stopped. After the revolution, Saadi Gaddafi was charged with this murder, but acquitted at trial in 2018. From the Lockerbie bombing of the 80’s, to the prison massacres, the disappearances, the tortures and football killings, the systemic rape of young girls in the 2000’s, the blood trickled down through the decades, even through its brief years of Western “rehabilitation” after 9/11. |
And why has Trudeau risked everything for SNC?
According to bourque:
A deal that would be impossible for a company either convicted or on trial for bribery and corruption. And what's in it for Trudeau. LOL. Corruption is as Canadian as maple syrup, and the Trudeau Foundation is always open for donations.
Related:
Financial Post: Only a criminal trial will reveal whether SNC-Lavalin’s corruption infected the government, too
OECD: OECD will follow Canadian proceedings addressing allegations of political interference in foreign bribery prosecution
CBC: OECD 'concerned' by allegations Trudeau interfered in SNC-Lavalin case
Georgia Strait: Let's not kid ourselves—Justin Trudeau has been the MP for SNC-Lavalin for a very long time
Related:
Financial Post: Only a criminal trial will reveal whether SNC-Lavalin’s corruption infected the government, too
OECD: OECD will follow Canadian proceedings addressing allegations of political interference in foreign bribery prosecution
CBC: OECD 'concerned' by allegations Trudeau interfered in SNC-Lavalin case
Georgia Strait: Let's not kid ourselves—Justin Trudeau has been the MP for SNC-Lavalin for a very long time
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