EDITORIAL: The Lavscam news keeps on coming
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If the Liberals were hoping they could use budget day to get Canadians to look the other way, they sure blundered on that one.
Yes, they promised voters a bunch of goodies. And for a few minutes the country debated whether it was a wise idea or not to provide home buyers with up to 10% of their down payment in the form of a taxpayer funded loan (we say it’s not).
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Then the deluge started again. Wednesday brought not one, not two, but three new developments in the Lavscam scandal.
The first is the most damaging for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Whitby MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes will now sit as an Independent, having left the Liberal caucus. This is a blow to Canada’s supposedly feminist PM, who seems to have a problem dealing with women who aren’t willing to just sit there and speak the party line.
Caesar-Chavannes had previously claimed Trudeau spoke to her with “hostility” and “anger” when she told him in February that she was going to announce she wouldn’t be running for re-election for personal reasons. Trudeau didn’t like this coming hot on the heels of all the news about Jody Wilson-Raybould and Caesar-Chavannes says she felt he was implying it was unacceptable to have two non-white women abandon him one after the other.
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We look forward to hearing more of her story.
It looks like we also may finally be hearing more from Wilson-Raybould herself. On Tuesday Liberal MPs took their cover-up attempts one step further by shutting down the Justice Committee. But now the Ethics Committee has announced that they will begin probing Lavscam, and are expected to invite the former Attorney General to testify.
The other news comes from SNC-Lavalin CEO Neil Bruce, who says his company never once claimed thousands of Canadian jobs were at risk as a reason to justify getting a Deferred Prosecution Agreement. If so, then why has that been the main argument Trudeau and his proxies have used to justify their pressure, legal or otherwise, that they exerted over Wilson-Raybould?
The Lavscam news just keeps on coming and the Liberal attempts to dodge accountability keep failing.
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