A fresh and immensely persuasive voice on former justice minister Jody and her role in the SNC-Lavalin case undermines the at times self-righteous claims of Wilson-Raybould and her supporters. The voice is that of a legend among Canadian lawyers, Brian Greenspan, who questions whether J W-R really understood her role
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Warren Kinsella: #LavScam lawsuit lunacy, latest
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
Continue readingWarren 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 readingThe Disaffected Lib: That Horse, It’s Dead. Leave It Alone.
The SNC-Lavalin business has jumped the shark. That’s not to say it’s over or that there may not be new revelations but, until something seismic comes out – if ever, it’s a dead horse. We’ve had our fill. Enough. I think most of us have some opinion of who, if
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 readingThe Disaffected Lib: Smooth Move, Mike
In 1998 the Ontario government of then premier, Mike Harris, sold the 407 highway to for $3.1 billion to a Spanish-led consortium that included – wait for it – SNC-Lavalin. The Ontario government had built the 407 for around $1.5 billion but Mike needed to get the books in order
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Jody Critics – You’ve Got Company. Conrad Black Appears Like-Minded
Lord Connie of PiddlePuddle has spoken. Trudeau should have turfed Justice Minister Jody long ago. And, FFS, stop getting worked up about fine Canadian enterprises greasing a few palms along the way. Pay no attention to that elitist OECD and the 1997 Convention on Combating Bribery that Canada, along with
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: You Loved Him When He Tore into Stephen Harper. Probably Not So Much Now. Michael Harris Takes Justin to the Woodshed.
Corruption, the exercise of official powers without regard for the public good, exacts a monstrous cost on multiple levels. Michael Harris is at it again, casting bones and reading entrails, Justin Trudeau’s this time. He writes it’s not looking good for Canada’s prime minister. None of this needed to happen.
Continue readingPolitical Potshots: Tuesday Night Journalistic Masochism
No politician has ever been removed from caucus in the history of Parliamentary politics in Canada. That is what I gather from Canadian media yesterday, The level of near hysteria and hyperbole would have you believe that the concept of democracy in Canada itself is under attack. It was a
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: The Liberal Party has bungled SNC-Lavalin terribly.
I can’t say I agree with much of my Liberal social media/blogger colleagues who are thinking this is a great thing that former Cabinet Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott got booted over their dissent as to how SNC Lavalin was being handled and the pressure being sent JWR’s way
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 readingPolitical Potshots: Jody Wilson-Raybould – Ah, Buh-Bye.
Jody Wilson surreptitiously recorded a member of the Cabinet, Michael Wernick – and possibly has recorded others according to a Tweet sent out by Warren Kinsella. Take what you will from that Tweet, but we do know that connections exist between the two. The concept of an Attorney General recording
Continue readingPolitical Potshots: The Best Acting Award Goes To…Jody Wilson-Raybould, For Inappropriately Recorded Phone Call With Michael Wernick!
Jody Wilson-Raybould, the patron saint of self-promotion. I am sick and tired of Jody Wilson-Raybould. I am tired of the constant deification at the hands of the opposition and some in media. I believe it is time for the Liberal Party of Canada to cut ties with Jody, and Jane
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: The only question I have left…
The only question I have left… “Because I knew my minister was not comfortable with us continuing those conversations. I felt I should test with her office before I shared the piece with the Privy Council Office, and I was instructed not to send it.The request I got was from
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