Mike Bossio says he believes Justin Trudeau on the SNC-Lavalin scandal.Bossio wrote me and told me the law was followed every step of the way. Then he went on with the Liberal sophistry that it was all for the 9,000 jobs, the pensioners and the suppliers and that trying to interfere in a criminal prosecution was the right thing to do.
Hubert Hogle stated “Political interference in the prosecution of a criminal case is obstruction of justice.” Beaver March 14. But Bossio needs more proof: The Criminal Code states obstruction justice covers “everyone who wilfully attempts in any manner…to obstruct, pervert, or defeat the course of justice”’ Globe and Mail March 18.
And now shamefully the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development Working Group on Bribery has put Canada on notice that it is concerned and stated “Political factors such as the country’s national economic interest and the identity of the alleged perpetrators must not influence foreign bribery investigations and prosecutions.”
Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, a former judge who teachers at the Allard School of Law in B.C. said that the government has reason to be concerned about criminal charges.” She continued: “But an attempt is also an offence.”
And now the CEO of SNC, Neil Bruce, has stated that he never mentioned the 9,000 jobs or that the headquarters would be moved out of Quebec. The Liberal jobs excuse is total bunk. Trudeau’s only real concern is for his job and those of some of his buddies. And Bossio must be concerned because he is spewing the same lame excuses.
At first Trudeau said the story was false, and then that there was no pressure put on Jody Wilson-Raybould, and then he said that there was appropriate pressure in order to save jobs. On Sept 17, 2018 Wilson Raybould told Trudeau that she was not going to interfere with the decision of the director of public prosecutions and that to do so would be inappropriate interference and that the director would be right to tell her to “buzz off”. Kingston Whig-Standard, Feb. 15.
Liberal apologists like Andrew Cohen resort to character assassination against Wilson Raybould and Jane Philpott calling them self-righteous, opportunistic, disloyal. sanctimonious renegades who might want Trudeau’s job in articles published in the Whig Mar. 6 and 13. He doubles down on the smear saying Wilson-Raybould speaks little French and was a mediocre justice minister and that Philpott isn’t terribly charismatic.
This speaks volumes of . Cohen’s character and how he can cut to the core of the issue and smear the highly regarded reputations of these two honourable women who are standing up for the sanctity of the rule of law.
The national interest is not SNC-Lavalin, Trudeau’s job or the jobs of Liberals, it is the sanctity of the rule of law and there is no doubt the Trudeau and his apparatchiks shamefully attempted to subvert the rule of law.
Thankfully Wilson-Raybould was brave enough to stand up for the rule of law and for Canadians. But Trudeau apparently has charisma so any excuse goes. Bossio must be one of these honourable members standing up for Trudeau instead of Canadians.
Dwight Hogg
Napanee