{"id":47115,"date":"2019-03-02T03:00:05","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T08:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=47115"},"modified":"2019-03-01T11:30:56","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T16:30:56","slug":"mark-steyn-trudeaupia-on-the-waterfront","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/03\/02\/mark-steyn-trudeaupia-on-the-waterfront\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Steyn – Trudeaupia on the Waterfront"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mark Steyn<\/a> on the “nothing to see here, let’s just move on” SNC-Lavalin affair:<\/p>\n

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Speaking as someone who gets sued a lot, I account Jody Wilson-Raybould as a killer exemplar of what every litigant dreads the other side coming up with – a credible witness<\/a>. In a riveting performance, the former Attorney General of Canada laid out calmly and without overheated rhetorical flourish a campaign by the most powerful figures in the government to get their cronies at SNC-Lavalin off the hook of a criminal prosecution for bribing (Libyan) government officials. Ms Wilson-Raybould identified just shy of a dozen Liberal Party bruisers who leaned on her, including the most senior chaps in the Prime Minister’s Office, the Privy Council Office and the Ministry of Finance – and ultimately the PM himself.<\/p>\n

But, in a competitive field, perhaps the behavior of Michael Wernick, Clerk of the Privy Council, a career civil servant and the highest-ranking in Canada, is the most outrageous. In a three-man meeting – the Clerk, the Attorney General and the PM – Mr Wernick acted not as an impartial public servant but as a gung-ho party hack demanding political interference in a criminal prosecution in order to help Justin’s pals beat the rap:<\/p>\n