The watchdog who enforces Canada’s election laws says no one from the Prime Minister’s Office tried to help SNC-Lavalin avoid being charged with breaking campaign-financing rules.
Before Cote’s statement became public, the Conservatives had again asked the Liberals in question period whether anyone from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office leaned on Cote to let SNC-Lavalin sign what’s known as a compliance agreement after being found in violation of financing rules.Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre went further, questioning the integrity of Elections Canada and the elections commissioner, saying they have “a lot of explaining to do.
“So it’s time for both Elections Canada and the Liberal Party to come clean on what discussions they did or did not have about letting the company and the party off the hook for this crime.” Five charges were laid against one former SNC-Lavalin executive, Normand Morin, who pleaded guilty to two of them last November.
globepolitics Right good answer to try to take heat off
globepolitics Just the conservative ad on TV in QC talking about corruption and scandal about Trudeau. The ads are done and Sheer will continue to spin it as a scandal, pathetic
globepolitics Wondering how Sheer will spin this as bad news for the liberal party.