Trudeau has no moral compass

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has no moral compass.  The truth of it was made clear with the damning revelations of former Attorney General of Jody Wilson-Raybould.  A majority of voters following the Trudeau leadership failure in the SNC-Lavalin affair, believe the former AG, and are quite turned off by Trudeau’s dissembling.   Trudeau has put his partisan election prospects before upholding the law.

Raybould gave withering testimony, based on texts, notes, and detailed recollections of “a consistent and sustained effort by many people within the government to seek to politically interfere in the exercise of prosecutorial discretion in my role as the attorney general of Canada in an inappropriate effort to secure a Deferred Prosecution Agreement with SNC-Lavalin.”

It was not a one-time stumble by a zealous loyalist, but was a government effort from the top to pressure and threaten her into cooperation with the Lavalin scheme.  It involved about dozen actors in multiple contacts.  It is unethical if not illegal to unduly pressure the AG to overturn a decision that was made under the process of due diligence.  It is like telling a Judge that you don’t like a decision, and if you don’t do as I want, you will no longer be a Judge.  Voters understand the principle.

When it was finally made clear that she would not dilute the law and make a special favour, she was demoted out of her job.   So, in Trudeau’s world, the law is not to be revered, but is just an inconvenience to get around for the higher political purpose of electoral survival.  Trudeau misled the House of Commons and lied to the nation in various media scrums.  He must resign. 

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Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer said:

Justin Trudeau simply cannot continue to govern this great nation now that Canadians know what he has done.  That is why I am calling on Justin Trudeau to resign.  Further, the RCMP must immediately open an investigation – if it has not already done so – into the numerous examples of obstruction of justice the former Attorney General detailed in her testimony.

The testimony Canadians have just heard from the former Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould tells the story of a Prime Minister who has lost the moral authority to govern.  A Prime Minister who allows his partisan political motivations to overrule his duty to uphold the rule of law.  A Prime Minister who doesn’t know where the Liberal Party ends and where the Government of Canada begins.  And a Prime Minister who has allowed a systemic culture of corruption to take root in his office and those of his most senior cabinet and public service colleagues.

I listened carefully to the testimony of the former Attorney General, and like Canadians, I was sickened and appalled by her story of inappropriate, and frankly illegal pressure brought to bear on her by the highest officials of Justin Trudeau’s government.  All to let a Liberal-connected corporation off the hook, on corruption charges.

Before Ms. Wilson-Raybould’s testimony, Canadians knew Justin Trudeau had engineered an unwanted, sustained, and co-ordinated attempt to get Ms. Wilson-Raybould to change her mind and stop the criminal trial of SNC-Lavalin.  Today, thanks to Ms. Wilson-Raybould’s testimony, we now know just how intense those efforts were: ten meetings and ten phone calls involving eleven senior government officials relentlessly targeting Ms. Wilson-Raybould over a four-month period – with the sole objective of bullying her into bending the law to benefit a well-connected corporation.

The details are as shocking as they are corrupt: multiple veiled threats to her job if she didn’t bow to their demands.  Urgings to consider the consequences on election results and shareholder value above judicial due process.  And reminders from Justin Trudeau to his Attorney General about his own electoral prospects should she allow SNC-Lavalin’s trial to proceed.

As Ms. Wilson-Raybould has so clearly articulated, the people Canadians entrusted to protect the integrity of our very nation were instead only protecting themselves and their friends.

Mr. Trudeau can no longer, in good standing and with a clear conscience, lead this great nation.

Canada should be a country where we are all equal under the law.  Where nobody – regardless of wealth, status, or political connections – is above the law.  I believe we can be that country again.