David Raymond Amos @DavidRayAmos
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Methinks Mr Scheer lives in fear that Trudeau the Younger or the Jane and Jody Tag Team or some clever lawyer will mention Federal Court File No T-1557-15 N'esy Pas?
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-lawsuit-scheer-defamation-1.5090240
Trudeau defends lawsuit threat, says Scheer 'can't be lying to Canadians'
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Dennis Bergman
An arrogant person who lack any decency and can't take responsibility for his own actions, and this person can no longer be a PM of Canada, period.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Dennis Bergman: Methinks we shall all see if enough folks agree with you in October In the "Mean" time we might as well enjoy the circus N'esy Pas?
Bill Edward Goate
Trudeau Advisor #1: I'm bored. What stupid thing can we get Justin to do next?
Trudeau Advisor #2: Let's convince him that he can sue the opposition leader over hurt feelings.
Trudeau Advisor #3: LOL, I can't wait to see the reactions on social media. Think he'll go for it?
Trudeau Advisor #2: You leave that to me.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Bill Edward Goate: Round 2
Trudeau Advisor #1 Wow is he ever gonna clam up?
Trudeau Advisor #2 Told ya he would fall for it
Trudeau Advisor #3 Don't ya just love the circus?
Chelsea Lang
Oh Justin, you’ve just made it worse. The irony!!
David R. Amos
Reply to @Chelsea Lang: YUP
John Silver
Excellent, I hope that this way Mr Scheer will be able to have a judicial review of our prime minister who cowardly shut down all investigation attempts into alleged corruption with the help of his party members.
David R. Amos
Reply to @John Silver: "I hope that this way Mr Scheer will be able to have a judicial review of our prime minister"
Me Too However methinks why Mr Scheer's lawyer Peter Downard don't return my calls or answer emails is because he and his client don't love me N'esy Pas?
diane nichols
Too bad he did not show up in parliament yesterday to defend himself. Probably another personal day.
David R. Amos
Reply to @diane
nichols: Methinks many of my political foes would likely agree in
private that Trudeau's lawyer Julian Porter was probably raking him over
the coals about my voicemails and emails this weekend N'esy Pas?
Richard Dekkar
Justin, person-up and testify under oath in open court. Canadians haven't had a straight answer from you and it's very clear that the falsehoods are coming from you and your team.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Richard Dekkar: Dream on
Bob Lyall
Trudeau is trying out for his next career, stand up comedy.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Bob Lyall: Methinks everybody knows the Drama Queen is already the King of Comedy N'esy Pas?
Mac Lester
of course he is going to defend, he already stumbled by serving Scheer the notice, which backfired
David R. Amos
Reply to @Mac Lester: "he already stumbled by serving Scheer the notice, which backfired"
Methinks he needs to learn to clam up N'esy Pas?
Emile Nelligan
Will the PM sue the Globe and Mail. Apparently the allegations were "totally false"?
David R. Amos Reply to @Emile Nelligan: "Will the PM sue the Globe and Mail"
NOPE Methinks even Mr Porter would not dare to write a nasty letter to them N'esy Pas?
Lori Cameron
But, but, but Sheer isnt the one lying to Canadians. He stated the facts, facts all the world now knows is true...that guilty conscience is just digging trudeau a deeper hole every day.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Lori Cameron: "But, but, but Sheer isnt the one lying to Canadians"
Methinks Mr Scheer lives in fear that Trudeau the Younger or the Jane and Jody Tag Team or some clever lawyer will mention Federal Court File No T-1557-15 N'esy Pas?
Keith Laughton
Reply to @David R. Amos:
I don't think anyone in a position of authority is concerned about your court case at all.
Regards.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Keith Laughton: Methinks the Jane and Jody Tag Team and clever lawyers are in the pursuit of authority and its not wise to pretend that you have any regard for me whatsoever N'esy Pas?
Trudeau defends lawsuit threat, says Scheer 'can't be lying to Canadians'
PM has delivered notice of defamation suit over SNC-Lavalin statement
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is
defending his threat to sue Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer, saying
his chief rival in the upcoming election "can't be lying to Canadians."
Trudeau's lawyer Julian Porter sent a letter to Scheer on Mar. 31 pointing to what he called "highly defamatory comments" the Official Opposition leader had made in a public statement two days earlier. Porter took issue with four sections of the statement, calling it "beyond the pale of fair debate" and libellous to Trudeau personally and in his role as prime minister.
Speaking about the threatened lawsuit for the first time today, Trudeau said it's important that all politicians be straight with Canadians in how they characterize their actions and beliefs.
"I think we are going to have an election in the coming months, and you can't be inventing things," he said on his way into a cabinet meeting on Parliament Hill.
"You can't be lying to Canadians, and I think highlighting that there are consequences, short-term and long-term, when politicians choose to twist the truth and distort reality for Canadians, it's not something we're going to put up with."
Scheer held a news conference Sunday — a week after the libel notice — to reveal the threatened lawsuit.
Scheer's March 29 statement, in part, accused the prime minister of political interference, of lying to Canadians and of corrupt conduct in relation to the SNC-Lavalin criminal proceedings.
In a letter sent in response to the threat, Scheer's lawyer Peter Downard called the prime minister's complaint "entirely without merit."
"It is profoundly disappointing that the prime minister is seeking to silence debate on matters of such great public importance," he wrote. "Mr. Scheer will not be intimidated."
Scheer kept the pressure up in question period Monday, urging the prime minister to move ahead with the lawsuit because it could shed more light on the SNC-Lavalin matter. Legal proceedings could require Trudeau to testify.
One legal expert told CBC Radio's The Current that while Scheer is essentially daring the prime minister to take him to court, it likely won't happen.
"If you saw his press conference, you couldn't help but notice that the leader of the Opposition was almost salivating with this prospect, because he wants to see the optics of a whole slew of witnesses and discoveries taking place, and emails, letters ..." Errol Mendes, a professor of constitutional and international law at the University of Ottawa, told host Anna Maria Tremonti.
The poor optics of launching such a trial in an election year mean "it's probably never going to happen," he said.
Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott were expelled from the Liberal caucus last week after they both spoke out about the government's handling of the SNC-Lavalin matter.
Today, Philpott rose in the House of Commons on a point of privilege, questioning whether the expulsion process was fair.
The Reform Act, a private member's bill that was championed by Conservative MP Michael Chong and passed before the 2015 federal election, was designed to give MPs more control over their leader, the power to expel and reinstate caucus colleagues and the ability to choose their own caucus chairs.
The law requires that party caucuses vote on whether to adopt those optional provisions at their first meetings after the election. The Liberal caucus did not hold that vote.
"Members of Parliament are not accountable to the leader. The leader is accountable to members of Parliament," Philpott said. "This is a constitutional convention."
Trudeau was asked to react as he left the cabinet meeting.
"The will of caucus was very clear, but I made the decision," he said.
The Commons ethics committee will meet later today and the Conservatives will make another push to have the committee study the SNC-Lavalin affair. Liberal MPs on the committee already have used their majority to defeat a Conservative motion to launch an inquiry, arguing that the justice committee's work was ongoing.
CBC's Journalistic Standards and PracticesTrudeau's lawyer Julian Porter sent a letter to Scheer on Mar. 31 pointing to what he called "highly defamatory comments" the Official Opposition leader had made in a public statement two days earlier. Porter took issue with four sections of the statement, calling it "beyond the pale of fair debate" and libellous to Trudeau personally and in his role as prime minister.
Speaking about the threatened lawsuit for the first time today, Trudeau said it's important that all politicians be straight with Canadians in how they characterize their actions and beliefs.
"I think we are going to have an election in the coming months, and you can't be inventing things," he said on his way into a cabinet meeting on Parliament Hill.
"You can't be lying to Canadians, and I think highlighting that there are consequences, short-term and long-term, when politicians choose to twist the truth and distort reality for Canadians, it's not something we're going to put up with."
Scheer's March 29 statement, in part, accused the prime minister of political interference, of lying to Canadians and of corrupt conduct in relation to the SNC-Lavalin criminal proceedings.
In a letter sent in response to the threat, Scheer's lawyer Peter Downard called the prime minister's complaint "entirely without merit."
'Profoundly disappointing'
"It is profoundly disappointing that the prime minister is seeking to silence debate on matters of such great public importance," he wrote. "Mr. Scheer will not be intimidated."
Scheer kept the pressure up in question period Monday, urging the prime minister to move ahead with the lawsuit because it could shed more light on the SNC-Lavalin matter. Legal proceedings could require Trudeau to testify.
One legal expert told CBC Radio's The Current that while Scheer is essentially daring the prime minister to take him to court, it likely won't happen.
"If you saw his press conference, you couldn't help but notice that the leader of the Opposition was almost salivating with this prospect, because he wants to see the optics of a whole slew of witnesses and discoveries taking place, and emails, letters ..." Errol Mendes, a professor of constitutional and international law at the University of Ottawa, told host Anna Maria Tremonti.
The poor optics of launching such a trial in an election year mean "it's probably never going to happen," he said.
Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott were expelled from the Liberal caucus last week after they both spoke out about the government's handling of the SNC-Lavalin matter.
Philpott questions expulsion
Today, Philpott rose in the House of Commons on a point of privilege, questioning whether the expulsion process was fair.
The Reform Act, a private member's bill that was championed by Conservative MP Michael Chong and passed before the 2015 federal election, was designed to give MPs more control over their leader, the power to expel and reinstate caucus colleagues and the ability to choose their own caucus chairs.
The law requires that party caucuses vote on whether to adopt those optional provisions at their first meetings after the election. The Liberal caucus did not hold that vote.
"Members of Parliament are not accountable to the leader. The leader is accountable to members of Parliament," Philpott said. "This is a constitutional convention."
Trudeau was asked to react as he left the cabinet meeting.
"The will of caucus was very clear, but I made the decision," he said.
The Commons ethics committee will meet later today and the Conservatives will make another push to have the committee study the SNC-Lavalin affair. Liberal MPs on the committee already have used their majority to defeat a Conservative motion to launch an inquiry, arguing that the justice committee's work was ongoing.
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