Juno News - March 19, 2019


Trudeau appoints a former Liberal MP to investigate LavScam

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Anne McClellan Michael Wernick Paul Martin Jean Chrétien Joyce Murray Clerk
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The Prime Minister has appointed former Liberal Cabinet Minister Anne McClellan to look into the SNC-Lavalin scandal and see how it was handled, and to make recommendations to the government. This only exacerbates the scandal, and shows just how tone deaf the Prime Minister is to all of this.

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00:00:00.000 Now that the Prime Minister is back from his taxpayer-funded, sun-filled vacation in Florida
00:00:11.000 for spring break, it seems that the SNC-Lavalin scandal is not going anywhere anytime soon.
00:00:19.040 The Prime Minister undoubtedly hopes his budget, which comes out tomorrow, will dominate the
00:00:25.320 news cycle and take SNC-Lavalin out of the headlines, but I don't think that's going to happen.
00:00:31.520 Today, the scandal claimed its fourth high-profile resignation, that of the Clerk of the Privy
00:00:37.980 Council, Michael Warnick.
00:00:39.760 Now, whether Michael Warnick retired, resigned, or was pushed out, I think remains to be seen.
00:00:48.320 Equally, the Prime Minister then appointed anti-pipeline activist Joyce Murray to the
00:00:55.060 position of President of the Treasury Board, one of the highest-profile positions in Cabinet,
00:01:00.100 and from which all of the money that government runs on flows.
00:01:04.420 It's difficult to see how that squares itself with the acquisition that the Government of
00:01:11.600 Canada did for the rights to the TMX pipeline that they acquired last year for $4.5 billion.
00:01:18.760 But worse than that, much worse than that, the Prime Minister appointed former Liberal Cabinet
00:01:28.320 Minister Anne McClellan to look into the SNC scandal and see how it was handled and to
00:01:35.820 make recommendations to government.
00:01:38.020 Prime Minister, Canadians expect and deserve to have faith in the institutions and the people
00:01:43.780 who serve in this.
00:01:44.540 The events of the last few weeks have raised important questions about the relationship
00:01:49.140 between the Federal Government and the Minister of Justice and Attorney General.
00:01:53.420 I'm therefore announcing that the Honourable Anne McClellan will serve as special advisor
00:01:58.040 to examine these questions and provide independent recommendations to us.
00:02:03.200 As former Minister of Justice and Attorney General and Deputy Prime Minister, she is uniquely
00:02:08.960 suited for this role.
00:02:10.200 Her work will be another important step towards maintaining Canadians' confidence in their institutions.
00:02:16.280 Well, that's rich.
00:02:17.920 First off, McClellan was a senior Cabinet Minister in the governments of Jean Chrétien, and then
00:02:24.040 following that as Deputy Prime Minister in the government of Paul Martin.
00:02:28.120 She was as close to the levers of power as you could possibly get. 0.95
00:02:31.640 And I might remind you that while she was the Justice Minister from 1997 to 2003, liberal
00:02:39.820 scandals that bubbled to the surface in those days were so prevalent, and she did nothing. 0.80
00:02:47.020 She turned a blind eye to them.
00:02:49.260 There was Shawinigate. 0.98
00:02:51.100 There was Shovelgate, the HRDC scandal, the billion-dollar boondoggle, the granddaddy of the
00:02:58.580 mall sidewinder, and then finally ad scam, which prompted the Gomery Inquiry and ultimately
00:03:05.300 toppled the government of Paul Martin.
00:03:08.280 There's no doubt, as Justice Minister, all of these things happened directly under her eyes.
00:03:14.300 And now she's expected by this Prime Minister to look into another Liberal scandal, into another
00:03:21.840 Quebec company buying influence in the Liberal Party of Canada and the government of Canada, 0.95
00:03:27.520 Canada, and it's just absolutely ridiculous.
00:03:30.920 Couple that with the fact that Anne McClellan also sits as a mentor on the board of the 0.81
00:03:35.720 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, you can see clearly that the conflict of interest that
00:03:42.680 is prevalent throughout all of this, this only exacerbates the scandal, in my view, and
00:03:49.420 shows just how tone-deaf the Prime Minister is to all of this.
00:03:53.200 For True North, I'm Leo Knight.
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