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Offline waldo

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Re: Trudeau accused in SNC-Lavalin scandal
« Reply #120 on: February 15, 2019, 10:44:10 am »
... for possibly the worst scandal in, well when Chretien was in charge, maybe longer.

care to succinctly state what it is you interpret as a scandal?

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« Reply #121 on: February 15, 2019, 11:24:42 am »
Anyways, I'm keeping an open mind about all of this until all of the facts come to bear.  We can't make anyone guilty yet.
Not even SNC-Lavelin?

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Re: Trudeau accused in SNC-Lavalin scandal
« Reply #122 on: February 15, 2019, 11:44:28 am »
Not even SNC-Lavelin?

Oct 2018: the federal director of prosecutions advised SNC-Lavalin that negotiating a remediation agreement would be inappropriate... that prompted SNC-Lavalin to ask the Federal Court for an order requiring negotiations.

Feb 8,2019: the federal director of public prosecutions officially asked the Federal Court to strike the plea request made by SNC-Lavalin

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« Reply #123 on: February 15, 2019, 12:00:46 pm »
Feb 8,2019: the federal director of public prosecutions officially asked the Federal Court to strike the plea request made by SNC-Lavalin
Because of the cigar that blew-up in Trudeau's face the day before, apparently.

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Re: Trudeau accused in SNC-Lavalin scandal
« Reply #124 on: February 15, 2019, 12:16:14 pm »
Because of the cigar that blew-up in Trudeau's face the day before, apparently.

good on ya for peeling back your assigned guilt... ahead of court proceedings.

Jan. 8, 2019: in response to the Oct, 2018 SNC request to review the Federal Court's findings (that denied remediation), the director of public prosecutions laid out a stern estimation that the SNC application, “is bereft of any possibility of success”

are you also tapped into court scheduled proceedings?

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« Reply #125 on: February 15, 2019, 12:28:30 pm »
are you also tapped into court scheduled proceedings?
No, I'm just tuned in to the absence of transparency in the PMO - it has a smell.
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« Reply #126 on: February 15, 2019, 02:30:17 pm »
No, I'm just tuned in to the absence of transparency in the PMO - it has a smell.

the 'asstute' Conrad Black on the hypothetical  ;D


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Re: Trudeau accused in SNC-Lavalin scandal
« Reply #127 on: February 15, 2019, 04:17:54 pm »
the 'asstute' Conrad Black on the hypothetical  ;D
The punctuated qualifier you attached to Conrad Black's obsequious toadyism on this issue suggests you must have caught at least a whiff of something too.

Yes, it's all virtually/plausibly legal and that's the real scandal that should be getting more exposure here - that companies like SNC-Lavalin are able to influence and lobby public officials and political parties the way they do in the first place.


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Re: Trudeau accused in SNC-Lavalin scandal
« Reply #128 on: February 15, 2019, 04:28:23 pm »
the 'asstute' Conrad Black on the hypothetical  ;D



Spoken like a true wealthy corporate **** and convicted felon who spent time in US prison on corporate fraud and obstruction of justice convictions!  :D

Thank you for proving my point.  Maybe Conrad will buy more SNV-Lavalin stock on the dip!  Surely Conrad would have loved such a sweet deal planted on him to avoid prison for himself and the 30 year criminal ban from entering the US.  Where's Conrad's Order of Canada? Oh ya, they stripped it from him.  He's not even a Canadian citizen.
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Re: Trudeau accused in SNC-Lavalin scandal
« Reply #129 on: February 15, 2019, 04:40:23 pm »
I guess so, but it's really two possibilities: JWR and the people close to her are toxic liars or Trudeau is being a slippery pol.

The best i think Trudeau can come out of this is that he was genuinely worried about the loss of thousands of jobs in Quebec, since if convincted SNV-L would be barred from federal contracts for 10 years, and so the DPA went through and JWR was approached.  That still leaves the hanging matter of her demotion (and resignation).

Me thinks there was more to do than just jobs though.  Quebec is a strategic Liberal stronghold, and SNV-L has a long history of greasing palms and other dirty deeds.  Seems the Liberal Party & the PMO wanted SNV-L off the hook for whatever reason.  There's also an election coming up and they need Quebec.
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Re: Trudeau accused in SNC-Lavalin scandal
« Reply #130 on: February 15, 2019, 04:42:04 pm »
Cool, you google SNC-Lavalin, and first up pops an ad for the Conservative Party of Canada.

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Re: Trudeau accused in SNC-Lavalin scandal
« Reply #131 on: February 15, 2019, 04:45:30 pm »
Cool, you google SNC-Lavalin, and first up pops an ad for the Conservative Party of Canada.
Maybe in your personalized search results. It turn that crap off.
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Re: Trudeau accused in SNC-Lavalin scandal
« Reply #132 on: February 15, 2019, 04:49:31 pm »
Cool, you google SNC-Lavalin, and first up pops an ad for the Conservative Party of Canada.

Scheer does try to hide from the fact of his own meetings with SNC. Maybe he has a few skeletons in his closet too.

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Re: Trudeau accused in SNC-Lavalin scandal
« Reply #133 on: February 15, 2019, 04:50:25 pm »
Maybe in your personalized search results. It turn that crap off.

Interesting, I tried it from a private web browser window. It could have been displayed based on IP address geography, but it would be strange for them to limit it to a province and not the country.

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Re: Trudeau accused in SNC-Lavalin scandal
« Reply #134 on: February 15, 2019, 05:11:31 pm »
Interesting, I tried it from a private web browser window. It could have been displayed based on IP address geography, but it would be strange for them to limit it to a province and not the country.
Google maintains a 'fingerprint' of your browser and uses that to predict what ads you would like to see. This fingerprint is not affected by incognito because it uses information like the installed fonts and other data which browsers provide to web servers in order to select the page to return. So google has you flagged as someone interested in political ads.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canvas_fingerprinting
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