Posted on 04/03/2019 1:42:29 PM PDT by FreeFromWhat
Justin Trudeau has banished two Members of Parliament from his party’s caucus after they questioned his leadership amid inappropriate interference in a corruption case of a powerful Canadian engineering company.
Trudeau took the unprecedented step of kicking out former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott, a former Cabinet minister, from the Liberal party caucus on Tuesday.
Both lawmakers are at the forefront of allegations that the Trudeau administration pressured Wilson-Raybould not to pursue a criminal case against SNC-Lavalin, a company that employs about 9,000 people in Canada and some 52,000 around the world, out of fear of potential job losses.
The company is accused of bribing officials in Libya with millions of dollars between 2001 and 2011 to secure government contracts there...
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This is reminiscent of Nixon’s Saturday Night Massacre.
And I was living in Canada when it happened! Spooky!!
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