Posted on 12/14/2016 11:41:04 AM PST by billorites
Liberal Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told the nation’s House of Commons Tuesday that he has attended lavish fundraisers for his family’s foundation to “create economic growth for the middle class.”
His defense of his participation in fundraisers thrown by the Pierre Trudeau Foundation – which he renounced his official position in upon becoming the leader of the Liberal Party – follows an admission that he allowed attendees to lobby him at these fundraisers, a clear violation of Liberal Party bylaws.
The metastasizing cash-for-access scandal follows a calamitous month for Canada’s Liberals in which, partly triggered by Trudeau’s effusive praise for dictator Fidel Castro, public approval of the Liberal Party dropped 9 percentage points.
Confronted by Conservative Party leader Rona Ambrose in the House of Commons Tuesday, Trudeau insisted that his presence at Trudeau Foundation fundraisers was a ploy to defend middle class interests.
“No matter where I am or who I am talking to I always talk about the same thing: The fact that our priorities are to create economic growth for the middle class,” Trudeau said Tuesday, responding to a barbed question from Ambrose: “When did money become more important than the integrity of his office?” He insisted that, at these fundraisers, he discussed “increasing taxes for the 1 per cent of the wealthiest so we are able to reduce them for the middle class.”
Trudeau also denied involvement with the Trudeau Foundation, calling it “an independent foundation established in the memory of my father with which I ceased to have any engagement shortly after having become leader of the Liberal Party.” The Globe and Mail notes that “opposition MPs erupted in howls of laughter” at his denial.
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The future ain't what it used to be..............
I didn’t say all those things I said.
Lock. Her. UP!!
That’s correct. He could call an early election but that is unlikely unless he feels scandals are approaching - it often backfires as Alberta saw last year and Ontario saw in 1990. It worked for Chretien in 1997 and 2000 as there was no united opposition.
Note that the two main opposition parties do not have a permanent leader right now (although the NDP is in total disarray with no candidates for the job). He is still leading in the polls, but only by about 10 points rather than 30 points. If he trails against leaderless parties, that is a big problem.
liberals and leftists are all the same....all for me, but not for thee...
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