Pity halfwit Ken doll, and Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau. He has endured cracks about his paternity, his Derek Zoolander-like penchant for playing dress up, and his deer in the headlights bafflement at the simplest of concepts.
Now comes the inevitable consequence of all that airhead bumbling. It is a scandal so full of bribes, hookers, and befuddled government coercion that it makes we down here in the lower forty-eight look like hosers, eh.
Aren’t our bland northern cousins, bigtime trading partners, and close allies just overly courteous pasty-faced moose lovers and beer swillers? Well, if so they’ve since graduated into the kind of political scandal that would make DC proud.
During my former life in politics I worked a 1995 race for the Canadian Liberals in Mississauga East, Ontario. The local pols seemed to me very Dudley Do-Right. Still, fun time and Toronto was a blast. I’d never seen so many Anglo-Saxons together at one time outside of a Rotary Club meeting.
I digress.
The scandal accuses, the accuser is a former Canadian attorney general, the shallow PM and his staff of trying to put a spanner in the works of a government investigation. The firm under the microscope, SNC-Lavalin, allegedly bribed Libyan officials to secure contracts to work in that desert locale. They also supposedly bought morally casual female companionship for Saadi Gadhafi, the son of the late wacky strongman, to grease the skids when Gadhafi Jr. visited Montreal and Toronto. Why?
To get SNC-Lavalin enough foreign business so they would stay in Montreal and not take their jobs elsewhere. The PM is a Member of Parliament from Quebec and the job loss would not do him, or his Liberal Party, any favors with his constituents.
Former AG Jody Wilson-Raybould claims she “experienced a consistent and sustained effort by many people within the government to seek to interfere in the exercise of my prosecutorial discretion.” The “many people” list reads like a Who’s Who of the Trudeau government.
Conservative opposition leader Andrew Scheer has called on the PM to resign. With national parliamentary elections due in October, that is unlikely. What is far more probable is the slow motion crumbling of Trudeau’s electoral chances until then.
Sex, corruption, and relatives of foreign dictators? The innocent little Canadians have finally taken off the training wheels and are really starting to get the hang of politics.
Kinda chokes you up.
