One day after Trudeau brags about having Jody Wilson-Raybould in his cabinet, she quits
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Jody Wilson-Raybould resigns as Canada s Justice Minister, and she hires a former Supreme Court judge as her lawyer. What does that mean for the rest of the investigation into corruption at SNC-Lavalin?
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Today we just go really deep on Jody Wilson-Raybould.
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Just yesterday, Justin Trudeau was bragging about how, well, obviously she still supports him.
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And she's hiring a former Supreme Court judge as her lawyer.
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We go deep on it, and we have a special guest going deep on it.
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Tonight, a day after Trudeau bragged about Jody Wilson-Raybould being in his cabinet, well, she quits.
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It's February 12th, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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Let's start with when The Globe and Mail first released their bombshell investigation into corruption at the engineering firm called SNC-Lavalin
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and the pressure that was put on former Canadian Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould to drop criminal charges against SNC-Lavalin.
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So here's Justin Trudeau answering a question about it.
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He looked nervous and wobbly and irritated and stressed.
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Listen to the question and his over-lawyered answer.
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And listen to the reporter asking a supplementary question, pointing out he didn't answer.
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And listen to this exact same over-lawyered answer.
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And you tell me, does Justin Trudeau look confident, happy, innocent here?
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The allegations in The Globe's story this morning are false.
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Neither the current nor the previous Attorney General was ever directed by me or by anyone in my office to take a decision in this matter.
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The allegations reported in the story are false.
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At no time did I or my office direct the current or previous Attorney General to make any particular decision in this matter.
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As I've said, at no time did we direct the Attorney General, current or previous, to take any decision whatsoever in this matter.
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But then yesterday, a whole different Justin Trudeau.
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He was in British Columbia to campaign in a by-election in Burnaby.
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Actually, you get the same message with the sound off.
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Let's watch this clip first with the sound off.
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He's got those, he's got the eyebrows going on.
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Now, I have met with Minister Wilson-Raybould a couple of times already since arriving in BC yesterday.
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We spoke about our shared goals for our country and for this government.
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She confirmed for me a conversation we had this fall where I told her directly that any decisions on matters involving the Director of Public Prosecutions were hers alone.
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I respect her view that due to privilege, she cannot comment or add on matters recently before the media.
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And I also highlight that we're bound by cabinet confidentiality.
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In our system of government, of course, her presence in cabinet should actually speak for itself.
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But you knew what he was saying just by looking at that smug smirk.
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I'm the only one in this argument who can talk about it because I'm not freeing Jody Wilson-Raybould from any confidentiality requirements.
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So you can pass her all you like, but you're only going to get my side of the story.
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And you know that because she's still in my cabinet.
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I mean, if she wasn't, she'd quit or I'd fire her, right?
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Not only was Wilson-Raybould happy to be part of Team Trudeau, but he still has some power over her.
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Because, of course, every cabinet minister serves only the pleasure of the prime minister.
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But not a 47-year-old cabinet minister who was just sacked as justice minister for not going along with Quebec corruption.
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Oh, Scott Bryson quit in the midst of a scandal, too.
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But that's because he's in deep political trouble.
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I mean, no one has quit Trudeau's cabinet on principle.
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But look, about two-thirds of the way down, could I quote?
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Oh, with just a former Supreme Court judge as her lawyer.
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You know, kind of guy you get to do a real estate deal for you.
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And I don't know if you noticed, she signed that letter, Pugless.
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So that's an Aboriginal name, which actually means Honorable, Honorable Host.
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As in, you can't buy her off with a few shiny baubles, Justin.
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Jody Wilson, Ray Bull's dad, Bill Wilson, has been raging against Trudeau on behalf of his daughter.
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He fought against Pierre Trudeau back in the day.
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He says he hasn't spoken about confidential matters with his daughter,
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but she knows how to fight and won't dishonor herself or her family.
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Can I read to you a bit from a recent interview he did with McLean's magazine?
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Do you believe she'll come away from this clean?
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I believe she could lose her career as a white politician.
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You don't cross SNC-Lavalin and get away with it.
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I think her career could be in jeopardy, but why not?
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If your career is based on dishonesty, lose it.
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If your career hinges on integrity, then keep your integrity.
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And they ask him again, even if she's cleared in all of this,
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And her dad answered, I don't think there's any question about that.
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Kicked her in the teeth and put her in veterans affairs.
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He kicked her as far down in the cabinet hierarchy as you could possibly go.
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But, you know, there's no depth to which politicians will not sink,
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I mean, David Lamedi, the newest justice minister,
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he's not only said that he doesn't think any investigation in this whole thing is necessary,
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he actually told reporters that he might just let SNC-Lavalin off the hook anyways.
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He's still considering dropping the charges against them in the middle of all this.
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So, yeah, I wonder what else he's agreed to do to keep his job.
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Lamedi, at least, is a qualified justice minister.
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And I don't mean that he's just that he's an obedient liberal.
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I mean, he's a law professor, regarded as smart.
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You can't say the same for most of Trudeau's affirmative action hires, though.
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I mean, Miriam Monsef, just a walking, talking joke.
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Bardish Chagger, the least accomplished of them all, perhaps?
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None of these cabinet ministers are of any note.
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She's the one who lied and continued to lie as an adult
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about the circumstances in which she came to Canada as a refugee.
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In fact, she lied on her refugee application to get in.
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Seriously, come to think of it, Christy Duncan also lied.
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She said she was a Nobel Prize winner in her campaign materials.
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In fact, the Nobel Committee has never even heard of her.
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and they were only too happy to do a deal with Trudeau.
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He'd hire them for his cabinet as race and gender tokens.
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And in return for this salary top-up and perks and prestige,
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they would give him political cover to do whatever he wants,
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including, for example, getting away with groping Rose Knight,
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All these women knew that was part of the deal.
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In Trudeau's world, recruiting Jody Wilson-Raybould was the best of all, though,
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an aboriginal woman, a woman of color from the West Coast,
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as Justice Minister, no less, daughter of a hereditary Indian chief.
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In the poker game of political correctness, that's the royal flush.
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Gerald Butts, Principal Secretary, Katie Telford, Chief of Staff,
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I don't think Jody Wilson-Raybould knew it then.
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She thought she was going to be a real justice minister.
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That wasn't the look of someone getting a bone thrown to her.
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That was someone who said, this is a great opportunity.
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Didn't she know that like Mariam Montseff and Bartish Chagher
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and Catherine McKenna and Christy Duncan and the rest,
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didn't she know her only purpose was window dressing?
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To defend the Montreal Mafia there of Trudeau and Butts?
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What delicious irony that she is the only one in Trudeau's cabinet
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who actually took her job seriously and acted with integrity
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How do you think this is going to go over with everyone and anyone
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The friend to all, lovable, huggable Trudeau of every gay pride parade,
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of every aboriginal photo op, of every ethnic gathering,
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When push comes to shove, Trudeau is not about every ethnic group
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When push comes to shove, he answers to Neil Bruce,
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whose company lobbied the PMO directly a dozen times
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He has this generic aboriginal tattoo on his shoulder.
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he just never expected her to do any thinking on her own.
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Trudeau has said and done strange things about Indians before.
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We're both known for our long hair on the hill.
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you know, pointing out that hair has a cultural significance
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When a warrior cuts his hair, it's a sign of shame.
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because I know that's how to humiliate you guys.
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Well, now he's met someone who won't go along with it.
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Stay with us for an extended discussion about this.
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a couple of times already since arriving in B.C. yesterday.
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We spoke about our shared goals for our country
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She confirmed for me a conversation we had this fall
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Well, that was Justin Trudeau yesterday saying,
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well, look, the fact that Jody Wilson-Raybould,
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who I allegedly fired, according to the Globe and Mail,
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the fact that she's still a loyal cabinet minister,
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Well, today, Jody Wilson-Raybould quit cabinet,
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sending shockwaves through the entire political system,
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to speak on matters that have been in the media
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So it's very, now her English name is underneath
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that, but it, it's sort of resonating that she's
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She's doing this out of some deep, like, I thought
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And her dad, who was a political activist in his
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day, too, who went head-to-head with Justin Trudeau's
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dad, Pierre Trudeau, her dad isn't bound by any
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He's Facebooking up a storm on this, and he says,
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finally, Jody, you'll be able to speak honestly, and
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I think that Justin Trudeau loves appointing quotas and
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He says to himself, he boasts about how many of this race
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and that gender, and in many cases, they are just
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They'll do whatever he says just to cling on to power.
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But I think the beautiful, delicious, poetic, karmic
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irony here, Manny, is that the ultimate box checker,
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women, check, Aboriginal, check, West Coast, check,
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progressive, check, actually turned out to be the one
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who believed in things so deeply that she refused to
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And Trudeau doesn't know how to fight that because he's
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used to emoting and affirmative action and progress.
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She is actually a woman of principle, it seems to me, and
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And there is another woman of principle, Leona, that
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There are great women on both sides of the aisle, and the
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great ones stand up and they speak to truth and speak to
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I will say one thing that I'm very proud of Puglis' father.
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I am a dad, a very strong, strong, bright, brilliant woman.
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And I could see that if it was my daughter and she was in that
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situation, she would stand up strong and I would be by her side.
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So I give great kudos to dad stepping up and, you know, there's no greater bond than a dad
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And it could never be outdone by the faux feminism of the prime minister.
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He's a tough man, a tough dad, and tough men and tough dads with tough daughters don't get
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That's a really nice way to end our conversation, Manny.
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I should note that Trudeau was scheduled to have press conferences.
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So we're recording this before Trudeau's final press conference.
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Who knows, it might not even happen today, but we'll be sure to follow the story in the
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Manny, as always, thank you so much for providing a political and legal point of view.
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That's our friend Manny Montenegrino, former chairman of a national law firm, former
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lawyer to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and the CEO of ThinkSharp.
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Hey, welcome back to my monologue yesterday about the SNC-Lavalin scandal.
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Cabinet was asked to blacklist SNC-Lavalin from any government contracts.
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As you know, the World Bank will not allow any country to use SNC-Lavalin on a job if
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So obviously, Canada's cabinet was asked to do the same thing, but they literally said,
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Paul writes, nobody does corruption quite like the liberals.
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It helps that they can generally count on the media party to cover for them.
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That's why I'm amazed that Bob Fyfe got this published.
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I mean, I pointed out that in December 2016, the Globe and Mail report on Business Magazine,
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that's their flagship mag, had Neil Bruce, the SNC-Lavalin boss on the cover, and they
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So literally two months ago, the Globe and Mail was part of SNC-Lavalin's lobbying effort.
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It's amazing this story ever saw the light of day.
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Ron writes, Trudeau and his cabinet already should have been charged.
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The opposition had numerous opportunities to bring him down and didn't.
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Trudeau will just skate away the SNC-Lavalin fiasco.
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Clearly shows that corruption in Ottawa is deep, rampant, and full of rot.
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Ron, I don't know how the opposition can bring him down because we don't have the kind of
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checks and balances in our system as they do in the United States.
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For example, there's just simply no way that you could get the kind of independent special
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counsel like Mueller, who's been on a two-year, $20 million wild goose chase, frankly, trying
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to find proof that Donald Trump is a Russian spy.
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He's got, what, a dozen staff, hunter killers, investigating, subpoenaing, inditing.
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He hasn't found anything on Trump, but he's just knocking over everything in the China
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There was something like that, some inquiry, I don't even remember what it was, but 30 years
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ago, and I think it was, I think Craig Chan just pulled the plug on.
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Trudeau wanted the ethics counselor to look into things because it's like a $200 fine if
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Now it looks like the liberals might be agreeing to having the Justice Committee of Parliament
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They don't have police power to do raids, to do search warrants, to do wiretaps.
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SNC-Lavalin did admit to paying $48 million in bribes, did admit to getting over $100 million
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I think it's going to take a tiny bit more than a few MPs having half an hour to ask
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So yeah, I'm going to disagree with you on this one, Ron.
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I don't believe that the opposition, I don't believe anything in our Canadian system has
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the power to take on corruption like this other than the police.
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We've got some big news coming for you tomorrow.
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Until then, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, you at home, good