What's Being Missed About Wilson-Raybould And The SNC Lavalin Mess

Justice.

What does it mean?

It's a question I bet not too many in Canada have asked themselves.

It's, you know, justice.

We just trust who ever's job it is to deal with it, handles justice properly.

Do we have a role as citizens to play in it?

Absolutely.

Wilson-Reybould is giving us a chance to remind ourselves on how to do it.

Now, at the moment, all we know is there's allegations of Trudeau tying to influence a Justice Minister into making a decision he expected.

Nice business you got there and nice family....would be a pity.....

So far. I'm happy people are appalled by it. It means they're paying attention and understand the gravity of such actions to the integrity of a nation and its laws.

Unfortunately some do not.

Enter Quebec nationalists.

They've chosen the lazy and usual myopic route to defend the indefensible.

You see, SNC Lavalin is a Quebec based company ergo it must be defended. Everyone does it so we must do it too!

They use the same faulty and undignified logic with Bombardier whenever that ward of the state masking as a company gets its bail outs in perpetuity. It's from 'chez nous' ergo we must!

If we don't, someone else will!

This is what happens when principles are set aside. You become a slave to corruption and cronyism. And quite frankly and unfortunately it's something Quebec excels at.

If they they don't like people asserting this then maybe they should stop saying stupid shit like:

"....The next day, on Radio-Canada’s news program Le télé journal, an expert on public and private governance, Michel Nadeau, defended the prime minister. “He told Quebecers, ‘Look, with SNC-Lavalin, I did what I had to do,’” Nadeau said in French, paraphrasing Trudeau. “‘And those who had something to say about it could have raised their hands, or come to me. But Wilson-Raybould didn’t present herself.’” The real mystery, he said, was why bureaucrats would obstruct an agreement for SNC-Lavalin when the same is done for multinational companies across the world, and in light of the company’s role in “building modern Quebec.”

On Tuesday Michel Girard, for the Journal de Montreal, added his voice to the mix to declare “mortal consequences” if SNC-Lavalin is prosecuted and convicted. Opposition leaders, he wrote, should be asked why they won’t support SNC-Lavalin like Quebec Premier François Legault does — a pertinent question for Quebecers in a federal election year."

There's a lot to unpack in this wallop of stupidity. If Nadeau is an expert on such matters then we're in deep trouble. He just made a case for a) cronyism and b) banana republic behaviour for la nation. No Nadeau, that's not the mystery. It's pretty apparent Wilson-Raybould seems to have stood up for the rule of law.

A politician with integrity steps up and Quebec looks to question her because of nationalist impulses. 

Reminds me of how the media down in the U.S. are mercilessly attacking Tulsi Gabbard because she dares - like Trump - be against perpetual war. 

Then comes Girard's (mais oui, c'est ca Le Journal de Montreal. Prend le cote de corruption. Bravo!) propagandist nonsensical hyperbole of 'mortal consequences'. That a company faces the consequences of its actions in a court of law? What kind of intellectual pipi is this? He proves himself a useful idiot here. Legault is a tribalist so it's of no surprise he'd side with a corrupted company on the matter. 

Not a good look for Quebec.

At all. 

I repeat. They are choosing corruption and the interference of a Prime Minister in the affairs of a Justice Minister. In essence, they're acting like communists. You can't pick up the phone, call the PMO and do stuff like this and then claim to be a 'proud democracy'. This is insidious as it's hypocritical.

If Quebec wants respect, they'd better start acting like they deserve it because this is not a way to do it. Who in their right mind would conclude in the bigger picture this is a good idea to defend Trudeau?

I don't know of too many countries who have leaders interfering in this manner; the United States included. Not even Trump has shown himself to be so brazen. Imagine that.

Quebec is wrong.

Period.

Very disappointed as a Canadian.

Principles matter.

Trudeau and Butts MUST be held to account.

Unfortunately, the party that laughably promised good governance and transparency, won't make it happen.

What a national disgrace this party is. A cynical bunch of babbling baboons who arrogantly lecture us about Canadian values while acting like an unhinged ideological mob outfit operating above the law.

The biggest miscalculation was giving this remedial dauphin a majority government.

At least Canadians are letting clowns like Butts get it.