Trudeau facing ethics and criminal questions over $900 million WE contract

People still want answers about exactly what happened during the We scandal, not an election where the Liberals avoid answering any questions about what happened. 

Why is Prime Minister Justin Trudeau continually threatening Canadians with a general election in the middle of a global pandemic?

I think it is safe to say the majority of Canadians do not want to participate in a general election during the COVID-19 crisis.

However, Canadians do want to know the details behind the WE Charity scandal and the prime minister’s involvement in it, especially when WE Charity pulled its operations from Canada after questions were raised. ...

Again, most Canadians don’t want an election, they want answers to questions around the WE Charity scandal.

Can we not get answers to those questions without being threatened with a pandemic election?

https://globalnews.ca/news/7409090/we-charity-scandal-election/

Recognizing the avalanche of negative publicity they were receiving the Keilberger brothers have shifted from refusing to attend the ethics committee hearing on We to attending with lawyers. I suspect that what we will get is "On the advice of my lawyer I regret that I cannot answer that question." Even the Liberals supported the demand for their appearance because this part of the ethics committee work does not directly deal with questions about the Liberals involvement in the We scandal. 

After initially declining a committee appearance before the House of Commons ethics committee, WE Charity founders Craig and Marc Kielburger have proposed to attend with the presence of their legal representative.

In a letter to the clerk of the committee, obtained by CTV News, counsel William McDowell cites committee member and NDP MP Charlie Angus’ call for the RCMP and the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) to investigate the charity’s financial dealings, as the cause for requiring legal presence at a future meeting.

"We wrote to you on March 3rd to raise the unfairness facing our clients should they appear before the committee and be questioned concerning the very matters which Mr. Angus has placed in the hands of the RCMP. We continue to have those concerns; indeed, a lawyer would be negligent simply to allow his clients to appear before the committee in these circumstances," he writes. ...

It comes after the committee voted unanimously Monday to summon the Kielburgers to testify in their ongoing study into "Questions of conflict of interest and lobbying in relation to pandemic spending." ...

Angus requested the RCMP and CRA investigations after a former donor, U.S. television journalist Reed Cowan, alleged that the plaque on a school he had funded in Kenya through the charity had been replaced with a plaque in the name of another donor.

WE said the incident was an unfortunate mistake; Angus called it proof of a "pattern of duplicitous relations with donors."

Cowan made the allegations during testimony in February to the ethics committee, which in turn had invited the Kielburger brothers to testify on Monday.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/kielburger-brothers-propose-committee-te...

It wasn't small potatoes to those students who never get a summer job because of the scandal. My youngest son who applied for the program was very unimpressed, to understate it greatly, by the way the Liberals tried to set up the program with their We friends, the Kielburger brothers. I doubt it will affect the next election except in the sense that it reconfirms the pattern of scandal, broken promises and poor decisionmaking that were involved in the Blackface scandal, abandoning electoral reform, declaring a climate emergency one day and literally buying Trans Mountain the next day, the blocking of three court cases involving compensation for indigenous youth being grossly underfunded in federal child care and residential schools, the Aga Khan scandal, the trip to India, the SNC Lavalin scandal, etcetera that have kept the Liberals from being much higher in the polls as the shine on the Trudeau veneer of the 2015 election has worn off. 

If you read what I said you would notice that I said I doubt it would affect the next election.... The Liberals should be way ahead in the polls with the Covid vaccination rate now ahead of virtually everyone, including Israel for first doses, but are still in the mid-30s, suggesting that a lot of people are not that enthralled with them. They will likely win, but governments often lose support over what you and I consider small issues but have a big affect on them personally and secondly a lot of people hold their noses and vote for a party in power because they are not happy about what they have done but give them a slight edge over the opposition. Then the pundits wonder why they get drubbed in a following election, mistaking a vote for rock solid support, when much of the population has had more than enough by the next election.

They also face a bigger problem in the long run. I suspect that promising major climate change reform while buying Trans Mountain whose total cost including construction is now estimated at $18 billion and for which four insurance companies have already dropped out of insuring both because of the climate change risks and the growing economic threats they face from an environmentalist backlash, supporting Keystone until Biden ended it, doubling Line 3 from Alberta to Manitoba and on to the US where it is facing growing indigenous and environmentalist protests, supporting continuing Line 5 through Michigan against local opposition, pushing the Energy East pipeline until it threatened its Quebec MPs winning their ridings, proposing building another pipeline to run from Ontario to the Saguenay for export to Europe and the rest of the world until the finances collapsed, allowing exploration wells that have already tested positive twice for a new oilfield off the Newfoundland coast, providing the money to finish a oil processing plant that the company saw as unviable in Newfoundland and providing another $300 million for further exploration off Newfoundland, and being in the process of redefining greenhouse gas emissions to make them appear lower than they actually are, will put the Liberals in increasing trouble as they continue to promise dealing with climate change and increasing fossil fuel production at the same time. As climate change hits harder every year this approach will be increasingly difficult to maintain. They have refused to have any emissions targets before 2030, despite environmentalists requesting ones for 2025 at the latest, because the Liberals think they can keep riding the two horses of climate change environmentalists and increasing fossil fuel production throughout the decade. The growing chasm between these two horses is likely to result in them falling to the ground in the election after the next one.