The RCMP Commissioner was unable to testify at an ethics committee hearing about the Trudeau regime’s blocking of their investigation into him, after Liberals voted to immediately adjourn the meeting before it started.

The RCMP Commissioner, Michael Duheme, appeared at the Ethics Committee hearing on Monday afternoon after it was revealed last week that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau blocked police from accessing relevant documents while investigating him for potential obstruction of justice over the SNC Lavalin scandal.  

But before any questions could be asked, a motion was put forward by Liberal MP Mona Fortier that proposed to immediately shut down the hearing. All six Liberal members present voted to adjourn the meeting, as well as one Bloq Quebecois member. All three Conservative members voted against the motion, one of whom could be heard muttering “unbelievable” after the vote was tallied, 7 to 3.

Fortier claimed that the invitation to the RCMP Commissioner was last minute and “was not discussed whatsoever by the committee.”

The Conservatives have since put out a statement, claiming that the Liberals are shielding Trudeau from potential criminal charges.

SNC-Lavalin

The SNC-Lavalin (now rebranded AtkinsRéalis) affair was a massive political scandal that emerged in early 2019 after it was revealed that Trudeau put pressure on then-Attorney General Wilson-Raybould to stop prosecuting SNC-Lavalin, an engineering company found to have bribed both Canadian and Libyan officials.

Trudeau ultimately fired Wilson-Raybould from her position as Attorney General after she refused to succumb to the pressure.

Last week, documents from the non-profit government watchdog Democracy Watch, received through an Access to Information request, showed that the reason the RCMP determined in January 2023 that there was “insufficient evidence” on Trudeau having broken the law, was, in part, due to the fact that the Trudeau government wouldn’t give up what was requested from them. 

Democracy Watch Co-founder, Duff Conacher, later called the RCMP a lapdog for the Trudeau regime.

“The records show the RCMP is a negligently weak lapdog that rolled over for Prime Minister Trudeau by doing a very superficial investigation into his Cabinet’s obstruction of the prosecution of SNC-Lavalin, not trying to obtain key secret Cabinet communication records, and burying the investigation with an almost two-year delay,” he said.

Trudeau denies

Trudeau denied the allegations of corruption, but then-ethics commissioner Mario Dion disagreed with the PM.

Dion said in 2019 that Trudeau engaged in a “flagrant attempt to influence” Wilson-Raybould to further “SNC-Lavalin’s private interests” and that Trudeau and his office abused their position to “circumvent, undermine, and ultimately attempt to discredit” her claims.

Dion also said the Trudeau Liberals blocked him from being able to “fully discharge the investigatory duties conferred upon me by the Act.”