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Over the weekend, Leader of the Opposition Pierre Poilievre spoke with YouTube channel “Northern Perspective” when he called the leadership of the RCMP “despicable” and added that many of the scandals of the Trudeau era “should have involved jail time.” Ben and the panel discuss the implications of his statements.

Government House Leader Steven MacKinnon called on Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre to apologize in Parliament over comments he made accusing the RCMP of “covering up” for former prime minister Justin Trudeau in the SNC-Lavalin affair. MacKinnon said Poilievre’s comments called into question the independence of the judiciary and RCMP.

During a Conservative rally in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Andrew Scheer claimed he will open a judicial inquiry into Liberal leader Justin Trudeau and the SNC-Lavalin affair. But as Mike Le Couteur reports, supporters at the rally yelled “lock him up” — a controversial callback to a Trump campaign slogan during the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer questioned Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau on the SNC-Lavalin affair, asking him to explain his decisions and justify how Canadians can trust him in light of what Scheer called misstatements of facts in the early days of the scandal. Trudeau fired back saying the Globe & Mail article was false.

Liberals voted against allowing ethics commissioner Mario Dion present his report on the SNC-Lavalin affair to the ethics committee, during an emergency meeting on Aug. 21. MP Pierre Poilievre provided comment in a media scrum outside the meeting.

Will the SNC Lavalin scandal sway your vote? Will the contest be settled in Ontario? And will the Green Party overtake the NDP as Canada’s third party? Our political panel weighs in.

Liberal MPs have blocked the opposition’s attempt to get Canada’s Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion to testify about his damning report on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau breaking rules in the SNC-Lavalin affair. As Abigail Bimman reports, the Liberals say this is all about partisan games ahead of the federal election.

Green Party leader Elizabeth May said on Aug. 21 during an emergency ethics committee meeting that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is guilty of an offence so grave that resignation is an appropriate response. She said this issue around the SNC-Lavalin affair is a systemic problem.

In wake of a recent ethics commissioner report finding Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau violated conflict of interest laws during the SNC Lavalin scandal, Conservative party leader Andrew Scheer called on Canadians on Aug. 16 to urge involved Liberal members to vote for allowing ethics committee to “do its work.”

Former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould says she spoke with RCMP in the spring amid the SNC-Lavalin scandal which continues to engulf Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his government.

Since Canada’s last general election, scandal and controversy have led seven MPs to sit as independents, including former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould who resigned from Cabinet before being ousted from the Liberal caucus alongside Ontario MP Jane Philpott amid the SNC-Lavalin case. Wilson-Raybould and Philpott confirmed earlier this year they’d be running as independents in...

Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland commented on the Ethic’s commissioner report on Thursday that found Prime Minister Trudeau broke ethics rules in the SNC-Lavalin scandal, praising Trudeau’s response for taking “full responsibility” for the actions that the Ethics commissioner outlined, saying she personally has “full confidence” in the PM.

Speaking in Salisbury, New Brunswick on Thursday, Conservative Party leader Andrew Scheer said he was “not surprised” at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s response to the ethics commissioner report findings on SNC-Lavalin, calling it a “corruption scandal” and that Canadians have the opportunity to “hold him responsible” in the upcoming federal election.

The ethics commissioner has found Prime Minister Justin Trudeau broke the rules by trying to exert influence SNC Lavalin case. Political analyst Janet Brown joins Global News at Noon to look into reaction and what this all means two months before the federal election.

Following a report from the ethics commissioner that found Prime Minister Justin Trudeau broke ethics rules by exerting influence in the SNC-Lavalin scandal, Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer said such ethics violations are “a Liberal Party problem.”

Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer spoke out in the wake of an ethics commissioner report on the SNC-Lavalin scandal that found Prime Minister Justin Trudeau guilty of ethics violations, accusing the prime minister of “desperately trying to cling to power.”

Ethics rose to the top of Conservative leader Andrew Scheer’s list on the campaign trail Thursday as other leaders focused on laying out different parts of their platforms. Shallima Maharaj explains.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said on Sept. 26 that Andrew Scheer’s plan to launch a judicial inquiry into the SNC-Lavalin affair does not address the root cause, which he said is the deferred prosecution agreement.

RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki declined to answer questions on the SNC-Lavalin affair while speaking with the media at a press conference in Ottawa on Tuesday regarding the recent, unrelated arrest of a senior RCMP official.

Montreal engineering giant SNC-Lavalin will undergo a major overhaul to cope with poor profits and an uncertain financial future. The company was at the heart of a controversy that led to Gerry Butts resigning as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s right-hand man. Abigail Bimman reports on SNC’s changes, and what Butts is now doing for the...