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Subject: RE: Daily Digest February 27, 2019.
Joe,
Re: Jody Wilson-Raybould, M.P. I most certainly welcome her to my Party.
How about you?
As a old businessman and an older trouble-shooter, and an even older and keen enthusiast of Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle, I have learned and stick (stubbornly) to the principle of never wasting time drawing conclusions based on almost no evidence.
I�ve been following (like many) the SNC story. I am completely confident that the story has been repeated and recited by numerous news writers who do not understand what they�re talking about. News organizations today are starving and cannot afford to hire anyone who knows what they�re talking about. I am fully confident that I do not have anything approaching a cognizant grasp of what SNC did (overseas) or did not do.
I am therefore unwilling to invest in legal or moral judgment of what they did and how they should be treated by the law. It is easy to imagine, for instance, that they did nothing they should censured for in Canada. I DON�T KNOW.
It is easy to imagine that JWR�s decision on this issue might have been out of touch with reality. I don�t know. Her judgment/communication following the Colten Boushie trial decision was outrageously prejudicial and illegal. She should have been fired. Please do not interpret this as support for JT (a grievous combination of kindergarten platitudes and condescension).
I can tell you, having worked with over 350 technology businesses, in the 80�s and 90�s, many of whom were doing business overseas, that most were engaged in business practices that were common and required overseas, but were extraordinary and illegal in Canada, the U.S. and western Europe.
APPROXIMATELY any technology business, doing business in at least 50% of the world, follows business practices that are illegal in Canada if tthey are unwilling to do this, there is no business. And yes, for obvious reasons, they don�t want to talk about it.
Paying off Government officials, for instance, to get a contract is common, expected and required practice in one third of the world. It�s simply �good manners.� They are offended if you don�t make an offer. There are various forms of this. In about half of the world, the �law� is only applied to players who do not �cooperate� and so �breaking the law in cooperation with officials� (overseas) is common and required practice. Mexican officials told me in the mid 90�s, that no supplier/importer actually meets Mexican regulations and it would be silly for us to worry about it. This was during NAFTA implementation negotiations.
Earlier I had worked with an exporting technology business in the 80�s. We shipped automation equipment to Brazil, on �overnight� drug delivery boats returning from deliveries to the U.S. There was at the time, no other means of getting product into Brazil because the drug cartel that owned the �Brazilian exportation agency facilities� to facilitate the drug sales, naturally also owned the �Brazilian importation agency facilities.� We paid the key Brazilian Government Official (in getting the order) with a large boatload of bananas (honest) so his fee (for accepting our bid) could not be detected in his bank account.
In parallel and at the time, Australia had decided (in a completely insane moment) to use only local Australian computer technology (there was almost no such thing as Australian computer technology in the 80�s) and to protect their local suppliers by foisting a ludicrous and prohibitive tax on imported computer equipment. This meant Australia had almost no access to automation equipment (which we wanted to sell).
We were able to sneak our industrial automation technology into Australia by moving it on sheep boats, returning from delivering sheep to China, and having the equipment certified by paid off Chinese dock officials as �used equipment� under the pretext that it had been imported into China (for a day). Since it was therefore �used in China,� it was not subject to the Australian tax. The equipment was delivered to select �used computer equipment redistributors in Australia� who then sold it to our �customers.�
I could tell you story after story after story. But the bottom line is, this is how most of the world operates. MOTW = Africa, India, China and Indo-China, South and Central America, Russia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. If you�re an exporter, that�s MOTW.
Make any ethical decision you want but be prepared too live with the physical consequences.
Regards
David Bell
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From: John Feldsted <jfeldsted@shaw.ca>
Subject: Wilson-Raybould a shining hero for standing up for the rule of law
Licia Corbella
Calgary Herald
Updated: February 28, 2019
There are numerous Liberal partisans online referring to Jody Wilson-Raybould as a traitor.
Nothing could be further from the truth. As ancient Roman senator Junius stated before his death in 359 AD: �The subject who is truly loyal to the chief magistrate will neither advise nor submit to arbitrary measures.�
In other words, a truly loyal subject will adhere to the rule of law no matter the political pressure put on them � and oh, my, but it�s a wonder Jody Wilson-Raybould (or JWR as she�s become known) wasn�t turned into a diamond, so intense was the pressure put upon her by the Prime Minister�s Office on behalf of Quebec-based engineering and construction giant SNC-Lavalin.
That Liberals are upset with JWR for her testimony Wednesday before the Commons Justice Committee is understandable. She delivered a bombshell. Whether the government will survive her revelations in the next election will be up to Canadians and how much they � like JWR � value the rule of law.
JWR testified that she was contacted by 11 officials, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the PMO, the Privy Council Office and Finance Minister Bill Morneau�s office on the SNC issue from September to December 2018, when she �experienced a consistent and sustained effort by many people within the government to seek to politically interfere in the exercise of prosecutorial discretion in my role as the attorney general of Canada in an inappropriate effort to secure a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) with SNC-Lavalin,� she said.
During a meeting on Sept. 17, which included Wernick, JWR was asked by Trudeau to �help out� SNC-Lavalin, which lobbied the PMO dozens of times in an effort to avoid criminal charges of bribing officials in Libya between the years of 2001 to 2011, by instead facing a DPA.
�In response, I explained to him the law and what I have the ability to do and not do under the Director of Public Prosecutions Act . . . . I told him that I had done my due diligence and made up my mind on SNC and that I was not going to interfere with the decision of the DPP (director of public prosecutions).�
To that, she said Trudeau told her �that there is an election in Quebec and I am an MP in Quebec � the member for Papineau.� Not surprisingly, JWR said she was �taken aback.�
The pressure, what she called �a barrage of people hounding me and my staff,� continued, she said.
On Dec. 19, Wernick told JWR �that the PM is quite determined, quite firm but he wants to know why the DPA route which Parliament provided for isn�t being used,� she told the committee. �He said: �I think he is gonna find a way to get it done one way or another. So, he is in that kinda mood and I wanted you to be aware of that.�
�I issued a stern warning because as the AG, I cannot act in a manner and the prosecution cannot act in a manner that is not objective, that isn�t independent,� she told the committee in her almost four hours of testimony. �I cannot act in a partisan way and I cannot be politically motivated. And all of this screams of that,� she said.
On Jan. 7, JWR received a call from Trudeau telling her she was being shuffled out of her role as minister of justice and attorney general. �I stated I believed the reason was because of the SNC matter. They denied this to be the case,� she said.
And yet this remarkable woman stood her ground. The pressure didn�t cause her to crumble, rather it turned her into an even finer diamond.
What�s most heartening about JWR is when all of this pressure was being applied on her and her staff to break the law for SNC, she didn�t know that these backroom dealings would ever be exposed for all the world to see, and she did the right thing anyway.
JWR closed her statement by saying that her understanding of the rule of law has been shaped not just by her family and her four years as a Crown prosecutor in Vancouver�s notorious Downtown Eastside, but that �the history of Crown-Indigenous relations in this country includes a history of the rule of law not being respected . . . and I have seen the negative impacts for freedom, equality and a just society this can have first-hand.�
�We either have a system that is based on the rule of law, the independence of the prosecutorial functions and respect for those charged to use their discretion and powers in particular ways � or we do not,� she declared.
So, whether this scandal has a lasting negative impact on Trudeau and his government depends on Canadians and how much they value one of the key foundation stones of our great country � the rule of law and the constitutional principle of prosecutorial independence.
The fact that JWR refused to advise or submit to arbitrary measures even when she believed nobody but those in the room would ever know is the opposite of a traitor. It makes her a truly loyal subject to Canada � which she called �the greatest country in the world.�
For that, the whole country should say, �gilakas�la.� Thank you.
Licia Corbella is a Postmedia opinion columnist. lcorbella@postmedia.com
Ref: https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/corbella-wilson-raybould-a-shining-hero-for-standing-up-for-the-rule-of-law
The attachment is a copy of Wilson-Raybould�s speaking notes, too long to reproduce here.
John Feldsted
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