The Globe and Mail’s John Ibbitson called it “needs-to-have-his-head-examined foolish.” The National Post’s Matt Gurney said it was “absolutely bonkers” and evidence of having “utterly lost [his] mind.” Former Chretien communications boss Peter Donolo suggested it was “a mistake in a number of ways.” The Post’s Andrew Coyne cheerfully quoted
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Warren Kinsella: #LavScam latest: Trudeau wants to give these creeps a sweetheart deal
An excellent Lavscam investigative report by CBC, no less. And it’s a doozy. Millions of dollars in a safe to facilitate bribes. Massive fraud. And Justin Trudeau’s favourite engineering firm still up to its ears in slime. The same firm which, also this morning, we are hearing in the indispensable
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: #LavScam by the numbers: Trudeau is losing – badly
Wow. The Toronto Star, of all media organizations, commissioned a poll after Justin Trudeau martyred Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott. And, according to the most Liberal-friendly paper of all, he’s in a free fall. Story here, key facts below: A new poll suggests Andrew Scheer’s Conservatives continue to have the
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: #LavScam lesson
I teach crisis communications to lawyers-to-be at the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Law, my alma mater. My students, as always, are terrific. And, for the whole term, we’ve been focussing on just one topic: LavScam. It makes sense. LavScam is the perfect fusion of a communications crisis and the
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Five things about Scheer’s #LavScam press conference today
1. He looked and sounded Prime Ministerial. Moreover, most Canadians want Trudeau gone; the election is therefore now a referendum on whether Andrew Scheer is up to the job. Moments like these suggest he is. 2. Justin Trudeau is clearly attempting to libel chill any public discussion of Lavscam. It
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Your #LavScam weekly roundup (and this is just a sample of a few papers, folks)
Rosie DiManno, Toronto Star: “THE LIBERALS HAVE ABANDONED THEIR MORAL PRINCIPLES…and it’s Justin Trudeau’s fault…It is dismaying to me, a political agnostic, that thuggery is now attached to the federal Liberal party. It is appalling to me, a feminist, that so many who claim to respect women, who call themselves
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest in the Sun: the Trudeau cult
Dear Liberals: This is an open letter to all of you. I want to start it by telling you why I became a lawyer. It was a movie, called The Oxbow Incident. It was a Western, released some 75 years ago, and it starred Henry Fonda. It was about how
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: The fake feminist, exposed
…and this is just the start, you phony SOB. Dozens of young women here for Daughters of the Vote turn their backs as Trudeau speaks -in solidarity with Ms Wilson-Raybould and Ms Philpott pic.twitter.com/aAhdlDHrcS — Peter Julian (@MPJulian) April 3, 2019 A stunning demonstration of young women speaking truth to
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Justin Trudeau: feminist, indigenous champion and ethical paragon
Not. He’s a liar. And the government he leads are idiots. They’ve made her into a national martyr, they’ve made her even more compelling, and they’ve ensured the story will stay alive for months. They’re the least-capable PMO in the country’s history. What a fucking farce this is. And they
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: #LavScam latest: tale of the tape – was PMO taping JWR?
From Butts’ notes. This does nothing but confirm every damn word JWR has said. (And – PS – how does Butts have verbatim quotes? Did they tape her?)
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Justice and Justin
There was a moment, during Justin Trudeau’s saturnalian March 7 LavScam press conference, where the Prime Minister waxed poetic. He grew misty-eyed. He looked up from his notes. He sounded wistful. He loved Justice, he said. He really did. He and his Dad both did. “The files that were closest
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Bar Associations: Justin Trudeau’s office “demeaned” the judicial process – and acted in a manner that was “false, improper and appalling”
Justin Trudeau’s PMO has made history: so intent were they on smearing Jody Wilson-Raybould, the Liberal leader and his apparatchiks violated the confidentiality of the judicial appointment process – and they smeared a respected jurist who was tending to his wife. Who had breast cancer. It got a reaction. One
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: #LavScam latest: did PMO have direct contact with prosecutors in the SNC-Lavalin trial?
That’s what the Globe and Mail is suggesting in another shocker this morning. I have wondered the same thing. Huge reporting by Fife and Team. And, if true, this moves things closer to obstruction of justice. Big time. The Prime Minister’s Office will neither confirm nor deny the assertion by
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Alastair Sharp reports on the massive sums of money spent by oil barons in an attempt to undermine climate action. And Kyla Mandel reports on the Trump administration’s willingness to allow the oil industry to threaten drinking water by failing to update decades-old
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Why the Brits Ignored How ‘Leave’ Rigged the Brexit Referendum
The Leave campaign had its thumb on the scales in the Brexit referendum. Through various devices it was a rigged outcome. Now the national crime agency is investigating some of the culprits. The list of suspects includes a number of shady Brits but also a few prominent Americans and perhaps
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: #LavScam legal: what it means now that PMO has lawyered up
The Globe and Mail has reported that Justin Trudeau and senior PMO staff have now retained independent legal counsel in #LavScam. I’ve helped organizations through legal/comms crises many times. I can tell you this is what this latest revelation means: • their ability to communicate openly about the file comes
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