FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Monday, June 19, 2023
OTTAWA – Today, Democracy Watch released the response it received recently to its Access to Information Act (ATIA) filed with the RCMP on July 27, 2022. The RCMP’s response letter, dated May 25, 2023, confirms it is investigating the allegation that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, former Finance Minister Bill Morneau, some members of their staff, and former Clerk of the Privy Council Michael Wernick, obstructed justice by pressuring then-Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould to stop the prosecution of SNC-Lavalin in 2018.
Attached to the response letter is a 96-page document with 86 pages fully redacted because “this matter is currently under investigation.” Only Democracy Watch’s 5-page February 2021 letter to the RCMP is unredacted, and four pages are fully redacted because they are “not relevant” and one page because it is “redundant”.
This is the first public statement the RCMP has made about the situation since August 14, 2019 when it stated that it was examining the situation carefully. On September 10, 2019, the Globe and Mail reported that Ian Shugart, then-Clerk of the Privy Council, had refused to waive Cabinet confidence to allow government witnesses to provide full information to the RCMP, and that sources within the RCMP said it was putting its examination on hold through the fall 2019 federal election campaign period. The next day former Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould stated publicly that she had been interviewed by the RCMP about the actions of the Prime Minister and others, as reported by the Globe and Mail .
“The RCMP should have confirmed long ago that it was investigating the situation given the evidence, and that more than four years have passed since the situation was made public, and almost four years since the Ethics Commissioner’s ruling finding that Prime Minister Trudeau violated the federal ethics law pressuring the Attorney General,” said Duff Conacher, Co-founder of Democracy Watch. “Given four years have passed, it is difficult to believe that the investigation has not been completed, and it raises many questions for the RCMP to answer.”
Democracy Watch called on the RCMP to answer the following questions:
- When did the examination end and the investigation begin?
- How many investigators have been investigating?
- How many hours in total have they spent investigating?
- Have there been negotiations with the PMO to disclose Cabinet confidences about the situation and, if not, why has the RCMP let almost four years pass without challenging the refusal to disclose in court?
- When does the RCMP expect that the investigation will conclude?
- Will the RCMP and Crown prosecutors issue a full public explanation of the investigation and its findings when it concludes?
Democracy Watch sent a letter to the RCMP in February 2021 setting out the grounds for prosecuting for obstruction of justice, and calling on the RCMP and Crown prosecutors to issue the full, public explanation that the public has a right to about the state of the examination (this letter is included in the 96-page record disclosed by the RCMP). The RCMP did not respond.
On June 1, 2022, Democracy Watch sent a second letter to the RCMP again setting out the grounds for prosecuting, and again calling for a full, public update, and also requesting disclosure of records under the ATIA. DWatch filed the ATIA request because the RCMP had disclosed documents in spring 2022 under the ATIA explaining its decisions concerning its investigation into the Aga Khan’s trip gift to Trudeau and his family. After some communications with the RCMP clarifying the request, it was finalized on July 27, 2022.
“Are the RCMP and prosecutors waiting for a third federal election to pass, or doing what often happens in Canada when powerful politicians and government officials are involved in alleged illegal activities – delaying with the hope that they can eventually bury the results of the investigation?” asked Conacher.
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FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Duff Conacher, Co-founder of Democracy Watch
Tel: (613) 241-5179
Cell: 416-546-3443
Email: info@democracywatch.ca
Here is the letter:
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Greencrow concludes. Well, folks due to the RCMP’s penchant for unconscionable delay/denial of justice in this case–as well as their heavy hand with the redaction black felt pen, we learn very little, in fact nothing, from the above other than that the matter is under active investigation. But, dear readers, that in and of itself is an ‘effin bombshell. JFT has been under active investigation by the RCMP for six years now, during which time he has psychologically tortured, maimed and even killed thousands of Canadians with his Satanic policies.
All this time JFT should not have been Prime Minister! Anyone under “active investigation’ for obstruction of justice for god’s sake should have been forced to step down! This is just one more indication, as if we needed any more, that Canada is a dictatorship where the tyrant can break the law any time he wants and continue to make the citizens lives pure hell.
Will anything come of this latest bombshell revelation? Don’t hold your breath but do stay tuned.
In the meantime, this kind of says it all:
WANNABE DICTATOR TRUDEAU
