Mon Jun 19, 2023 – 3:38 pm EDT
OTTAWA, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) — The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) have for the first time since 2019 confirmed it is investigating Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet for potential obstruction of justice concerning a bribery scandal involving a large Canadian engineering firm.
In a press release sent out today, the non-profit advocacy group Democracy Watch said it got a response to an Access to Information Act (ATIA) request it filed with the RCMP on July 27, 2022, about the SNC-Lavalin affair and Trudeau.
According to Democracy Watch, the RCMP response letter, which is dated March 25, 2023, “confirms it is investigating the allegation that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, former Finance Minister Bill Morneau, some members of their staff, and former Clerk of the Privy Council Michael Wernick, obstructed justice by pressuring then-Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould to stop the prosecution of SNC-Lavalin in 2018.”
The response letter is 96-pages long but contains 86-pages which are fully redacted, as the matter is “currently under investigation.”
The only visible portion is Democracy Watch’s 5-page February 2021 letter which it sent to the RCMP.
“This is the first public statement
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