RCMP covered up Trudeau-era scandals, Poilievre alleges
RCMP covered up Trudeau-era scandals, Poilievre alleges
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said the RCMP covered up what he calls scandals involving former prime minister Justin Trudeau and said they would have otherwise led to criminal charges.
In a recent interview with YouTube channel Northern Perspective, Poilievre called the leadership of the RCMP “despicable” and added that many of the scandals of the Trudeau era “should have involved jail time.”
Poilievre said the former prime minister “probably” violated the criminal code during the SNC-Lavalin affair.
“These would normally have led to criminal charges, but of course the RCMP covered it all up,” he said.
In 2023, the Conservatives argued that the Liberals, NDP and Bloc censored the RCMP by shutting down the RCMP commissioner’s testimony on the SNC-Lavalin scandal in a parliamentary committee meeting.
In the interview, Poilievre also said Trudeau broke the code when he took a “free vacation from someone with whom he had government business,” alluding to the 2016 Aga Khan scandal.
“If the RCMP had been doing its job and not covering up for him, then he would have been criminally charged,” Poilievre said.
Speaking to reporters at a news conference in Toronto Thursday, RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme said the SNC-Lavalin affair was discussed “quite a lot” under the previous government and that there was no interference.
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