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    Re: Trudeau exposed by whistleblower who he has now fired Archived Message

    Posted by brooks on April 3, 2019, 1:15 pm, in reply to "Re: Trudeau exposed by whistleblower who he has now fired"

    That could definitely be part of it, but my guess is that the main leverage relates to two things: Lavalin is a Quebec-based company where Trudeau's riding is and which traditionally is a Liberal stronghold; most of the neoliberal Canadian establishment - which includes the media - does not want to set a precedent of prosecuting white-collar crime and are circling the waggons. I say "most" because Lavalin really did commit a serious crime: it didn't respect the US Official Enemies list which lapdog Canadian governments and elites reflexively adopt as their own. So there are competing principles at play - protecting corporate crime versus obeying the Godfather - the only reason this garden-variety graft ever became a scandal in the first place. Add to this the partisan politics, and opposition parties leveraging public opposition to the cynical treatment of Wilson-Raybould against the Liberals for political points, and you have a made-in-canada tempest-in-a-teapot corruption scandal. But the priorities reveal how fraudulent all the posturing is: Bribing a Libyan government official, bad. Destroying Libya, killing tens of thousands of civilians, immiserating millions for generations, yawn.

    but who knows? The US and Canadian military establishments are so integrated, that maybe someone in Washington informed Trudeau's government that this prosecution must not go through for the reason you mention. It's certainly possible

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