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Canada’s ‘anti-Trump’ doesn’t look so pretty anymore
By Post Editorial Board
March 1, 2019 | 10:40pm

Democrats and liberals have been suffering serious Justin-envy. Justin Trudeau, that is, Canada’s young prime minister: progressive, pro-globalist and “woke,” he’s everything President Trump is not.

So imagine the precious irony if Trudeau is forced from office for illegal political pressure and interference.

That’s the week’s big news up north: Former Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould testified that Trudeau and top aides tried to pressure her into stopping the prosecution of a large engineering company.

Montreal-based SNC-Lavalin is accused of paying the late Libyan strongman Muammar Khadafy’s family $48 million in bribes between 2001 and 2011 to secure contracts.

The firm had been pressing for an agreement in which it would pay a fine rather than be prosecuted. But the AG’s office decided to move ahead and Wilson-Rayboud backed it up.

That’s when Trudeau and his team made “consistent and sustained” efforts, including “veiled threats,” to change her mind, she told Parliament. This, even after she warned them they were crossing the line.

Trudeau, for his part, admits speaking to the then-AG (she was fired in January after the scandal broke), but insists there was nothing improper or illegal.

The fallout is just beginning, even as Canada holds a national election in October.

Even if Trudeau and his Liberal Party survives the scandal, the left’s fair-haired boy sure doesn’t look so pretty anymore.

https://nypost.com/2019/03/01/canadas-anti-trump-doesnt-look-so-pretty-anymore/