Democracy Watch calls for Ottawa Police to investigate Trudeau and cabinet officials

 Democracy Watch says the RCMP lacks independence from cabinet and impartiality and competence to investigate obstruction of SNC-Lavalin prosecution.  Democracy Watch says that recently disclosed documents about RCMP Commissioner’s relationship with the PM and its investigation into Trudeau’s Aga Khan trip gift raise fundamental questions about the RCMP’s impartiality and competence

Politics: Al Capone’s version of a team sport

 I do not like Jody Wilson-Raybould. But contrary to popular opinion on social media, this is not because I’m a blind Liberal partisan. In fact, I’ve thought JWR was a hypocritical, self-righteous narcissist since long before she became the Trudeau-hater-in-Chief. Why do I feel this way? Especially about someone who

Democracy Watch calls for update on SNC-Lavalin prosecution

 In February, 2019, the SNC-Lavalin scandal erupted and upended Canadian politics—for a moment. After a six-month-long investigation, Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion concluded Prime Minister Justin Trudeau alone had exerted undue pressure on Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould to defer criminal prosecution of the construction company SNC-Lavalin. Though Dion’s report concluded that

Lowering the bar on political ethics

 The October 21, 2020 confidence vote in Parliament is one of the lowest points ever reached in Canadian politics. It was a vote about integrity and ethics, versus incompetence or, worse, corruption. It was about the propriety of a sole-sourced contract for almost a billion dollars being given to an

Canada — Trump’s China Pawn

 The American request for the arrest It was a year ago this month when the Trudeau government detained and arrested Huawei Technologies Chief Financial Officer, Sabrina Meng Wanzhou, in Vancouver at the sole request of the United States. Meng is the daughter of Ren Zhengfei, the founder of and CEO of

Justin Trudeau — It’s time to go.

 If Justin Trudeau has any integrity, he must resign. I’m ashamed for my country, as a citizen and frankly as a person in the media, over the shocking photos that were revealed yesterday showing Canada’s Prime Minister happily wearing brownface at an event in 2001 when he was 29 years

Let’s try this again

 Over the past few years alone, the concept of feminism has morphed and changed exponentially. Although the key to feminism simply being ‘equality for all, no matter their gender’ has remained the same throughout generations, how that is viewed in the eyes of society has all but remained fluid. For this,

The SNC-Lavalin saga continues as the actions of board members Kevin Lynch and Eric Siegel raise questions about ethics law

 Today, Democracy Watch released the letter it has sent to federal Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion, calling on him to ensure an independent ruling on the activities of Kevin Lynch and Eric D. Siegel. Kevin Lynch, Canada's former highest "public servant", is the former Clerk of the Privy Council (2006-2009), Secretary to the

Integrity of The Office of the Ethics Commissioner questioned after Democracy Watch confirms Dion’s senior counsel is related to Liberal cabinet minister by marriage

 The Office of the Ethics Commissioner recently confirmed that its acting director of investigations, Martine Richard, is the sister-in-law to a Liberal cabinet minister. Ms. Richard heads the Investigations and Legal Services division of Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion’s office, and her sister Jolène is married to Trudeau Cabinet minister Dominic LeBlanc.

Democracy Watch urges Commissioner Dion to delegate investigation to a provincial ethics commissioner

 Photo credit: Jean Gagnon Democracy Watch recently released the second letter it has sent to federal Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion calling on him to delegate an expanded inquiry into everyone named by Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould last Wednesday who may have tried to influence her to intervene and

Ethics Commissioner must conduct investigation into alleged political direction in SNC-Lavalin prosecution

 Photo credit: Sean Kilpatrick (The Canadian Press) Today, Democracy Watch released the letter it has sent to federal Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion calling on him to delegate an inquiry into whether Prime Minister Trudeau or anyone in the PMO violated the federal government ethics law by trying to