https://www.ourwindsor.ca/news-story...n-snc-lavalin/
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OTTAWA—Attorney General David Lametti has sought an external legal opinion on “issues” raised by the controversial SNC-Lavalin case, which has seen two ministers resign over the PMO’s handling of the affair, the Toronto Star has learned.
“The minister has sought outside advice on some of the issues raised by the matter, which is typical on high-profile or otherwise important questions,” said Lametti’s spokesperson David Taylor, in response to questions from the Star.
Asked to clarify if Lametti went outside to get the external legal advice that former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould testified she refused to seek, Taylor said: “To be abundantly clear, the advice is not of the variety that PMO is alleged to have suggested to the former minister to get. It’s not in that realm.”
Wilson-Raybould testified last week that she resisted repeated efforts by the Prime Minister’s Office to persuade her to seek an outside legal opinion as a “solution” to resolving an impasse with the PMO. She said she believes she was demoted from her post as attorney general for refusing to bend to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s will. She resigned weeks later as veterans affairs minister, saying she no longer had confidence to sit around the cabinet table.
Taylor said the advice sought by Lametti was not to determine whether any pressure brought to bear on Wilson-Raybould was undue, unethical or unlawful.
So it remains an open question why Lametti went outside his own department in the matter, and what advice he got.
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My guess is that a few things will eventually come out of this:
1. Evidence that Lametti's first order of business as newly appointed AG was to pursue a DPA for SNC.
2. Evidence that various members of parliament and the PMO colluded in applying pressure to JWR seeking to obtain a DPA for SNC
3. Evidence that the strategy behind the cabinet shuffle that saw JWR moved out of the position of AG was the result of her refusal to issue a directive to the DPP to pursue a DPA with SNC
On the subject of DPA's and the Liberal narrative that the pursuit of a DPA was to save 9000+ Canadian jobs...
https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/.../page-179.html
With respect to Bill C-74 and the associated changes to the Criminal Code of Canada that establishes provisions for a DPA, from PART XXII.1, Section 715.3 Remediation Agreements:
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Factors not to consider
(3) Despite paragraph (2)(i), if the organization is alleged to have committed an offence under section 3 or 4 of the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act, the prosecutor must not consider the national economic interest, the potential effect on relations with a state other than Canada or the identity of the organization or individual involved.
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The Liberals seem unaware that they are acting in contravention of a law that they developed in June of 2018, the argument that economic impact warrants the SNC DPA directly conflicts with Section 715.3 of the Criminal Code.
Baboons.