So why IS Trudeau getting involved in the CEO of the Trudeau foundation stepping down and accusing the Conservatives of causing it?. He "stepped away" from having anything to do with the foundation.
I don't recall Trudeau commenting when the CEO of WE Charity decided to close operations in Canada.
With the WE Charity, he was essentially caught red-handed sole sourcing a contract to a charity his immediate family 'worked for/earned money from.'
(Is that money laundering? Or just plain old corruption?)
But he got caught feeding money to a charity without a competition for which charity should receive those funds, and who just so happened to pay his family hefty sums of money for being guest speakers...
Should he have been charged? I think so...doesn't get more blatant & red handed than that...
Whats different with this situation is he's already
very much under the microscope when it comes to his party's relationship with China, and him being an integral part of covering it up.
The allegations of Chinese influencing the elections have already been made. And instead of allowing for a public inquiry as requested by ALL of the other parties, he appointed a family friend to look into it...
When asked in Parliament whether or not he'd been briefed by CSIS/RCMP, he had said no. Turns out, he was...and more than once.
Now there are accusations they let the 2 Michaels stay imprisoned in China for 6 months longer than they had to, because they were afraid it would somehow make them look bad in the last election if they were released as early as possible.
Now the LPC is under fire for a prominent Liberal MP's sister in law being appointed a prominent interim position within the Ethics Office...during a time when he has scandal after scandal, and the matter of Chinese influence is only going to become bigger & louder.
So that's my really long way of saying...this charity's scandal involves money coming in from China, during a time he's already under heat for Chinese influence in our government.
The other charity scandal didn't involve foreign influence in our government, or any way to blame the opposition for 'stirring up controversy where there isn't any.'
There wasn't an opportunity to try to deflect blame on anybody else with the WE Charity. But with this charity there is