Pierre Poilievre and the Death of the Fake Scandal

I wasn't looking forward to watching Justin Trudeau appear before the Commons Justice Committee.

I knew that Pierre Poilievre and his ugly stooge Charlie Angus were out for blood, determined to make a fake scandal sound like a real one.

And after the way they had both teamed up to smear poor Margaret Trudeau the day before, I knew they were capable of anything.

But as it turns out, I shouldn't have worried.

For Trudeau was able to easily handle the Con NDP smear mongers, to the point of looking at times like he was enjoying himself.

And even the toxic Trudeau hater Michael Harris was forced to admit he had managed to take the air out of the fake scandal.

First, and most important, Trudeau testified that he never spoke to representatives of WE, and only learned of the charity’s involvement in the massive volunteer grant program on May 8. That was the date cabinet received the recommendation from the public service that WE was the only organization able to administer the volunteer grant program.

A tad disingenuous to be sure, since the public service recommends and cabinet decides. But a far cry from the charge that the PM personally favoured WE and interfered to tilt the ultimate decision in its favour.

The charge that Trudeau favoured the Kielberger brothers because they were his friends also went up in flames.

Trudeau also flatly denied being friends of the charity’s founders, Craig and Marc Kielburger. Trudeau said he never had dinner with them, never socialized with them, and didn’t consider them friends. Just people he knew. 

And then there was the "smoking gun." The one the Con/NDP mucky mucks were hoping to use to hurt his wife Sophie...

But only ended up hurting themselves.

But it was Trudeau’s explanation of his wife’s involvement with WE that let the air out of the charge that benefits to his family had affected the government’s choice to select WE to administer the volunteer grant program. When pressed on how much money his wife had received from WE, Trudeau instead pointed out two crucially important things. 

The first was that Sophie’s work for WE was unpaid, although she had been reimbursed for expenses. And before that happened, Trudeau testified that his wife’s pro bono work for WE was approved by no less a person than Canada’s ethics commissioner. Still shocked and appalled?

By shoving that fake smoking gun up their own asses and pulling the trigger.

Bottom line? The only way for the opposition to have magnified the WE “scandal” was to fortify the impression in committee and in front of the country that Trudeau was a shameless practitioner of nepotism and a crooked politician. They failed to add a single new fact to bolster those accusations. 

Instead, Trudeau got a national television platform to explain how things actually unfolded, and he was categorical. WE got no preferential treatment from his government, and no personal support from either the PM or his staff. Unless he is lying, this scandal is a receding tide.

Which left the ghastly misogynist Charlie Angus looking like a fool...

And left his good buddy Pierre Poilievre looking even worse...

The scandal won't die of course. Our filthy Con media will try to keep it alive.

But all that will do is show is that people like Vassy Kapelos are such toxic Trudeau haters they don't deserve to be called journalists...

While Justin Trudeau keeps on fighting the pandemic, and doing what needs to be done to help our economy recover.

And of course, showing once again that decency matters...