JULY 11, 2020 – The WE scandal continues to gain momentum with each passing day.
What first looked like a case of bad judgement has turned into claims of cronyism, ethics violations, an ethics investigation and now demands for a criminal investigation.
The bigger issue is that Trudeau just shrugs this off as something he is entitled to do because after all he is a Trudeau. I have even seen articles where variations of that excuse are offered up to defend his complete lack of ethics.
Back in 2015, I was writing that eventually Trudeau’s arrogance will catch up to him and to his party as well. Over decades of doing political research and tracking that party and its misdeeds, this type of behavior always surfaces. The Liberal Party and their present leader really do believe that they are “Entitled to Their Entitlements” a slogan that came from a comment of David Dingwall in 2005 and used very successfully by the Conservatives in the 2006 election.
We are also seeing what appear to be leaks of serious information about WE, such as the monies paid out by the charity to Trudeau’s mother and brother and also linking the Finance Minister and his family to the charity. Someone has an axe to grind and it is adding to the mess created by this scandal. This type of drip…drip…drip leaking is very hard for PMO to contain and defend against.
Trudeau will survive for now because the Conservatives have said they will not attempt to bring down the government- thankfully, they are smart enough to know they do not want to campaign under Scheer again. I also hope they are smart enough to save some of the best things they find out to use later.
These scandals have a habit of resurfacing at election time and they make for wonderful political attack ads. In an election, we called these “channel changers”. We could unload these stinkers at anytime, but they were especially useful to divert the press if the Liberals were doing well
Just wait, there will be more to come in the days ahead.
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