Wed Jun 21, 2023 – 5:55 pm EDT
OTTAWA, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) –– The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) now deny that they are looking into whether Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet, about four years ago, committed obstruction of justice concerning a bribery scandal involving the large Canadian engineering firm SNC-Lavalin.
On Monday, the non-profit advocacy group Democracy Watch said it got a response to an Access to Information Act (ATIA) request filed by its co-founder Duff Conacher, with the RCMP back in July of 2022, about the SNC-Lavalin affair and Trudeau. The advocacy group says the response confirmed there is an ongoing investigation into the matter.
However, after Democracy Watch released the letter, the RCMP later in the day issued a statement denying that there is an ongoing investigation.
“In response to numerous media reports, the RCMP can confirm it is not investigating allegations of political interference in the trial of SNC Lavalin,” tweeted the RCMP Monday.
According to Democracy Watch, the RCMP response letter, dated May 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
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