The Duran Quick Take: Episode 286.
The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss Canada's Trudeau tough re-election bid, which has been hit with a scathing rebuke, delivered by an ethics watchdog report.
With less than 10 weeks before the October vote independent ethics commissioner Mario Dion said Trudeau improperly pressured his former attorney general to spare engineering firm SNC-Lavalin Group from a corruption trial. The scandal erupted in February and helped push Conservative candidate, Andrew Scheer, to the top in polls for several months. With no new developments or headlines, Trudeau's Liberal Party was recovering in the polls.
The 63-page report undermines Trudeau’s narrative, which is that he is a young and dynamic progressive on a mission to “do things differently” and more transparently in Canada.