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RSS Feeds`Political kryptonite` : Opposition leaders accuse Justin Trudeau of abusing power after SNC report
(The Star Toronto Raptors)

 
 

15 august 2019 09:35:02

 
`Political kryptonite` : Opposition leaders accuse Justin Trudeau of abusing power after SNC report
(The Star Toronto Raptors)
 


OTTAWA—The leaders of the major opposition parties accused Justin Trudeau of abusing his power and are calling on Canadians to reject the Liberals in the coming federal election after Parliament’s ethics watchdog ruled Wednesday that the prime minister broke the federal conflict of interest law during the SNC-Lavalin affair.In Regina, federal Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer revived his call for a police probe into whether Trudeau’s actions — which he described as “unforgivable”— amount to criminal conduct.“He clearly put his partisan interests ahead of the democratic institutions that have served this country so well for over 150 years,” said Scheer, who first called on Trudeau to resign over the controversy in the spring. “Justin Trudeau needs to be defeated, and Canadians will have that opportunity on Oct. 21,” Scheer said. “The correct response is for Canadians to vote out a corrupt Liberal government led by a prime minister who still cannot accept responsibility for his actions.”Speaking in Victoria, federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh charged the report shows Trudeau can no longer be trusted and said the prime minister has a lot to apologize for.“We have evidence that (Trudeau) caved to the demands of SNC-Lavalin, to a powerful corporation, to change the law to effectively get them off the hook” for criminal charges, Singh said.“How do we believe them when we see that they’re working to use their influence and power, not to help people, but to help those who are at the very, very top? And that’s just wrong.” The report by ethics commissioner Mario Dion concludes Trudeau breached federal conflict of interest law by trying to influence his former attorney general to make a decision that would further SNC-Lavalin’s private interests. Jody Wilson-Raybould, the former Liberal cabinet minister at the heart of the controversy, accused Trudeau and ...


 
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