EXCLUSIVE: The SNC-Lavalin affair continues to haunt Justin Trudeau, with the Liberals' pre-election budget doing little to quell the damage.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appears to have suffered more damage from the SNC-Lavalin scandal than U.S. President Donald Trump has from the Russia investigation, hush money payments to a porn star, alleged campaign finance violations, threats of impeachment proceedings and the litany of new investigations launched by Democrats.
READ MORE: Jody Wilson-Raybould joins calls for judicial appointment leak probe amid SNC-Lavalin scandal “People in Ottawa can say what they want about the significance of the scandal — ‘there’s no sex, there’s no money, what is this all about?’ “When you take a look at where the Conservatives are leading, they’re now leading everywhere you need to lead,” Bricker said. “They really don’t need anything else to beat the Liberals.”Indeed, the only province in which the Liberals are in pole position is Quebec, where they have the support of 38 per cent of respondents.
Forty per cent of women now say they would vote Conservative, compared to just 28 per cent for the Liberals .The only key subset among which the Liberals lead is the university-educated, with 44 per cent approval compared to 30 per cent for Conservatives. READ MORE: Almost half of Americans still believe Trump colluded with Russia, according to Reuters/Ipsos poll
“The worst outcome you can have is that they hate the budget, and the second-worst is that they ignore it — and they ignored it.”If the source of many of the Liberal Party’s woes is the SNC-Lavalin scandal, that’s also where they need to look for solutions to turn their situation around, Bricker said.
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