Speaking of Canada
Canada: RCMP bungles ‘criminal investigation into Justin Trudeau’
APR 30, 2022 8:00 AM
BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS
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It is difficult for anyone to keep up with Trudeau’s bad leadership, his totalitarian tendencies and his indiscretions, but certainly the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) should have followed through on one of those indiscretions — a violation of ethics in an illegal vacation — which was straightforward, but they failed. The level of ineptitude is astounding and calls for an investigation of the investigators.
In 2018, I wrote about Trudeau’s conduct:
Since May 2018, Trudeau has shown himself to be an indiscreet man. He was investigated by Canada’s Ethics Commissioner for breaching four sections of Canada’s Conflict of Interest Act. He defrauded Canadians of $200,000 for a family vacation on the Aga Khan’s private Bahamian island. He also held a secret meeting with former Taliban captive Joshua Boyle (who is facing 15 charges), robbed taxpayers of $10,500,000 in a payout to infamous jihadist Omar Khadr, and quietly paid three more Muslims who were said to have been tortured while in detention in Syria and Egypt.
The entire story below is worth the read since it implies a complete lack of will by the RCMP to investigate, combined with shocking ineptitude — enough to raise the question of whether such incompetence was staged. It is too unbelievable to think that Canada’s police under federal jurisdiction could actually be this blundering, yet are trusted with other high-level, more complex investigations.
“LILLEY: Mounties bungle criminal investigation into Justin Trudeau,” by Brian Lilley, Toronto Sun, April 27, 2022:
The entire saga of Justin Trudeau’s illegal vacation six years ago to the Aga Khan’s private island is embarrassing to Canada. The RCMP’s handling of the investigation, now laid bare for all to see, just adds to the embarrassment.
While the Ethics Commissioner already determined the vacation was illegal because it violated the Conflict of Interest Act, documents released this week show that the Mounties considered whether to charge Trudeau but ultimately decided not to. The documents related to the investigation should make anyone question whether the RCMP is a serious police service capable of investigating much of anything, never mind alleged wrongdoing at the highest levels of government.
The alleged investigation appears to have consisted of officers going to Google to find information about the Aga Khan, his foundation and the report issued by the Ethics Commissioner on this issue. Investigators even copied and pasted Trudeau’s Wikipedia page including his family tree.
One thing they didn’t do was speak to the prime minister himself.
A chart detailing how the police service should proceed in deciding whether to lay charges against Trudeau shows that there was one key point they were unsure of. Rather than ask Trudeau for clarification, the Mounties said they were unsure and dropped the case.
Trudeau was being investigated for a possible charge of a fraud on the government. Section 121 of the Criminal Code makes it illegal for government officials to take rewards from people government business with.
A lavish Christmas vacation on a private tropical island certainly qualifies as a reward and the Aga Khan, through his foundation, was doing business with the government. The Mounties, using their chart, established that Trudeau was a government official, that he accepted a benefit from the Aga Khan, that the Aga Khan was conducting business with the government and that Trudeau knew that he accepted a benefit from a person who has dealings with the government….
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