‘We expect that the prime minister will try to drown out this scandal with billions of dollars of irresponsible spending,’ Conservative finance critic Pierre Poilievre told reporters
OTTAWA — On the same day that Liberals are set to unveil their last federal budget before the next federal election, the House of Commons justice committee will hold a hotly anticipated, private meeting to discuss where to go next with its investigation into the SNC-Lavalin affair.
When she testified before the committee earlier this month, Wilson-Raybould accused Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his senior officials of attempting to politically interfere in the criminal prosecution of the Montreal engineering giant. Trudeau can loosen those constraints. Wilson-Raybould wrote to the justice committee offering to expand on her testimony should he do so. But at its most recent meeting last week the Liberal majority on the committee quashed a motion to invite her in.
Meanwhile, in the lead-up to the election Conservatives have remained preoccupied by the Liberals’ history of running budgetary deficits — last year’s budget predicted a deficit of $18.1 billion for 2018-19, and as of December, the finance department was predicting there wouldn’t be a balanced budget until 2040.
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