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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.

In an interview with Global’s ‘The West Block,’ former Liberal MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes says she will be voting for Conservatives for the first time in her life. Caesar-Chavannes left Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau’s caucus in 2019, a month after Jody Wilson-Raybould resigned her cabinet position amid the SNC Lavalin affair. Abigail Bimman reports on what...

Andrew Scheer said Tuesday that calling for testimony and investigation into the SNC-Lavalin case is “not partisan” and is something Canadians should be concerned about.

Jody Wilson-Raybould has resigned from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet, without explaining why. The move closely follows allegations she was pressured by the PMO to intervene in a criminal case involving SNC-Lavalin. Mercedes Stephenson reports.

Many questions remain unanswered over why Jody Wilson-Raybould has resigned from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet. The main one is whether Wilson-Raybould can address the allegations she was pressured to intervene on a criminal case in favour of SNC-Lavalin. Robin Gill reports.

Jody Wilson-Raybould, veterans affairs minister, resigned from the federal cabinet on Tuesday following allegations of corruption and fraud of SNC-Lavalin.

Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre criticized the main motion put forth to the Justice committee to study reports on of political interference in the SNC-Lavalin case for not including key players as witnesses in the situation such as former Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould, Gerald Butts, and Katie Telford.

Tue, May 10: SNC-Lavalin says it will reimburse Quebec municipalities and agencies an undisclosed amount of money to settle contracts it obtained through fraudulent acts. Global’s Elysia Bryan-Baynes reports.

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Conservative leader Andrew Scheer said on Friday that if the Liberals vote down the idea of a meeting to discuss SNC-Lavalin allegations, it’s quite clear a cover-up is going on.

Prime Minister Trudeau is facing backlash over a report that the PMO asked the former Attorney General to intervene in SNC Lavalin’s ongoing case.

The panel discusses the repercussions of a new report that indicates the PMO may have directed the former Attorney General to intervene in the SNC-Lavalin case.

Liberal MP Marco Mendicino questioned the use of ‘anonymous sources’ by the Globe and Mail in a report this week alleging political interference by the Prime Minister’s Office in the case of SNC-Lavalin.

Minister of Justice and newly-appointed Attorney General of Canada David Lametti was hammered with accusations surrounding the SNC-Lavalin controversy during Thursday’s Question Period, and he denied the Globe and Mail’s allegations that the PMO pressured former Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould to drop the case.

Fri, Feb 15: The preliminary hearing into the SNC-Lavalin fraud allegations continued at the Montreal courthouse on Friday. The trial comes as a political scandal is playing out in Ottawa with Quebec putting pressure on the federal government to reach a deal. Global’s Amanda Jelowicki explains.

The SNC-Lavalin affair is a controversy the Prime Minister’s Office can’t escape. Former justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould still hasn’t given her side of the story, and Justin Trudeau keeps changing his. But as Mike Le Couteur reports, Trudeau still denies he pressured Wilson-Raybould to intervene in the case.

Conservative leader Andrew Scheer said Tuesday’s justice committee is the last chance the Liberals will have in a parliamentary setting to shine a light on a ‘very serious scandal.’

Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains said he met with SNC-Lavalin and discussed economic growth, but they understood he would not interfere with the administration of the law.

He is imprisoned in Libya and the United Nations has frozen his assets – but the son of fallen dictator Col. Muammar Gaddafi still owns a luxury Toronto suite that SNC-Lavalin paid to decorate.