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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Warren Kinsella: Globe: Trudeau, PMO staff hire outside lawyers in case RCMP probes #LavScam
Wow. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and senior officials in his office have retained outside legal counsel in case of an RCMP investigation into allegations of political interference in the criminal prosecution of SNC-Lavalin Group. Mr. Trudeau’s communications director, Cameron Ahmad, told The Globe and Mail on Friday that Treasury Board
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Assorted content to end your week. – Nathan Robinson discusses how the language of “meritocracy” is used to entrench structural inequality: The inequality goes so much deeper than that, though. It’s not just donations that put the wealthy ahead. Children of the top 1% (and the top 5%, and the
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Your morning #LavScam: March 14 edition
The Liberal majority on the “Justice” Committee again voted to prevent Jody Wilson-Raybould from speaking. It didn’t go over well. None of it has gone over well. •Toronto Sun Campaign Research poll: “As for Trudeau himself, Yufest says he now stands at just 29% approval compared to 58% who think
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Armine Yalnizyan comments on the need for a widespread and sustained challenge to the corporate powers which currently dominate political and economic decision-making: (P)ublic and private investments are the twin engines that propel shared prosperity. But where will the money come from
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Ten things Trudeau did wrong at his #LavScam press conference
How bad was Justin Trudeau’s early-morning LavScam press conference? So bad CTV Your Morning’s Ben Mulroney asked aloud if the Liberal Prime Minister had made things worse for himself. So bad Bell Media radio host Evan Solomon called Trudeau’s statement “a word salad.” So bad I played a tape of
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Andrew Mitrovica gives due credit to Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott for showing there’s some honour to be found in Canadian politics – though the Libs’ subsequent loyalty tests have made it all too clear how limited that is. And Alan Freeman warns
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Abacus Data #LavScam shorter version: #CPC up, @JustinTrudeau down
Our friends at Campaign Research are out with a national omnibus today, too, I believe. I suspect they are going to show the same thing (if not worse). Poll, methodology, etc. here.
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – Ellie Mae O’Hagan writes about the need for economic equality to be at the core of any push to eliminate the gender gap. And PressProgress highlights how the Trudeau Libs have gone in the wrong direction with tax handouts which favour wealthy
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Sandy Garossino offers a reminder of the large-scale corruption – including bribery supporting dictatorial regimes and multiple instances of illegal practices in Canada – at the root of the Libs’ SNC Lavalin scandal. Andrew Coyne comments on the parallels between SNC Lavalin’s lobbying
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Your Saturday #LavScam roundup: Trudeau’s coddling of “ordinary evil”
National Observer: “…the most depressing spectacle of the entire affair is watching Justin Trudeau, a man who clearly aspires to greatness, debase himself and this nation, by begging, pushing, imploring Canada’s attorney general to let this company off the hook. Then effectively firing her when she wouldn’t comply, and allowing
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Your morning #LavScam: the Imposter has a bad, bad press conference
The Imposter’s non-apology apology didn’t go so well. A summary of the commentariat, below: John Ibbitson, Globe and Mail: “At Thursday morning’s news conference, an unrepentant Justin Trudeau described the political crisis that has consumed his government as a failure to communicate. It was not. This crisis is about his
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Assorted content to end your week. – Melanee Thomas writes that we need to change our political system, rather than blaming women for the barriers placed in their way: Ethos – that set of values and beliefs that guide our politics – is key to explaining why women remain so
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: The #LavScam questions Trudeau wouldn’t answer
Me on Your Morning on CTV. I look super old. Too many 5 a.m. wake-ups to do #LavScam commentary!
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: #LavScam shocker: the prosecutors react to Trudeau
An hour after the “Prime Minister” speaks, this. This is simply extraordinary. In all my years of lawyering, and trying to teach law, I have never seen something like this. It is the clearest indication, yet, what the Canadian justice system thinks about Justin Trudeau’s repeated efforts to obstruct justice.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Tim Wu writes that the U.S.’ political system is serving to allow a privileged few to ignore the policy preferences and interests of the vast majority of citizens: About 75 percent of Americans favor higher taxes for the ultrawealthy. The idea of
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Your morning #LavScam: the New York Times calls it “a spreading mess” and “a major blow”
I’ll be on CTV Your Morning today around 7, after Trudeau speaks this morning, and also doing the radio tying over on the mighty Newstalk 1010. This is the sort of thing I’ll be talking about: it didn’t go well, yesterday. At all. Editorial board of the New York Times:
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: A #LavScam moment to remember: these people are disgusting
Here, folks, is the chair of the Standing Committee on Justice literally ROLLING HIS EYES when an MP says "it is in the interest of justice" that @Puglaas be permitted to testify about the #LavScam scandal. Remember this moment on voting day. #cdnpoli #lpc #cpc #ndp pic.twitter.com/bO0TZsIEqQ — Warren Kinsella
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Yves Engler writes that the Libs’ SNC-Lavalin scandal represents a fully expected consequence of a foreign policy based on acquiescing in corruption: …Trudeau went to bat for SNC after the firm had either been found guilty or was alleged to have greased palms
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