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For those who haven't heard about the SNC-Lavalin scandal:

>MP Jody Wilson-Raybould alleged the PMO pressured her to intervene in an ongoing criminal case against Quebec-based construction giant SNC-Lavalin while she was Minister of Justice and Attorney General, before she was shuffled to another cabinet position in January 2019. The Trudeau government maintained that there was no undue pressure or law broken, that a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) could save jobs, and that the situation resulted from misunderstanding and an "erosion of trust".

>"I experienced a consistent and sustained effort by many people within the gov't to seek to politically interfere in the exercise of prosecutorial discretion…"

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/jody-wilson-raybould-opening-statements-1.5035785

Why is Trudeau blocking prosecution of SNC-Lavalin?

>The Bronfman family has financed the Liberal Party for more than 100 years

https://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/the-ties-that-bind-the-liberals-and-the-bronfmans/

>Stephen Bronfman is Trudeau's chief fundraiser and advisor and was involved in the Cayman Islands tax scheme revealed in the Paradise Papers

>Trudeau's family inheritance also came from offshore tax havens revealed in the Panama Papers

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/05/justin-trudeau-adviser-stephen-bronfman-offshore-paradise-papers

Who is the Bronfman family?

>Stephen Bronfman's father is billionaire Charles Bronfman, the brother of Edgar Bronfman, Sr., who was head of Seagram

>Edgar Bronfman, Sr. is the father of Clare and Sara Bronfman, who became heiresses to the Seagram fortune and helped run the NXIVM sex cult for Keith Raniere by using blackmail to get people entangled in their sex-slave trafficking ring, DOS (short for "master over the slave daughters" in Latin)

>Clare and Sara Bronfman bankrolled silencing lawsuits against NXIVM adversaries

>The two are also members of the Clinton Global Initiative, which requires a $15,000 membership fee

>NXIVM sex-cult prosecutors have evidence of illegal Clinton campaign contributions for "political influence"

>Trudeau's government handed over $20 million to the Clinton Foundation to "support projects that will provide critical sexual and reproduction health (SRH) services" in Nigeria

Here's where it gets interesting:

>Sara Bronfman's husband is Basit Igtet, a Libyan national who founded the Swiss International Management and the Swiss Mideast Finance Group

>In 2011, her husband worked to support the Libyan revolution through international lobbying and was consequently appointed as a Special Envoy to the Libyan National Transitional Council

https://www.brainstain.us/2019/03/05/canadian-pm-justin-trudeau-rocked-by-resignations-amidst-political-corruption-scandals/

Why was SNC-Lavalin CEO’s wife, Emma Griffin, advised to leave Canada by Stephen Bronfman soon after Jody Wilson-Raybould's testimony? Why did the couple sell their Montreal home?

>SNC-Lavalin CEO’s wife, employed by Stephen Bronfman, to leave Canada imminently

>"she will soon become a non-resident of Canada"

https://buffalochronicle.com/2019/03/26/snc-lavalin-ceos-wife-employed-by-stephen-bronfman-to-leave-canada-eminently/

China's Ambassador to Canada, Lu Shaye, recently criticized Canada for calling for the release of Canadians detained in response to the arrest of Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou who defrauded banks in violation of U.S. sanctions on Iran.

>China’s ambassador to Canada says the bilateral relationship is now at “rock bottom” compared to any time since diplomatic ties were first established decades ago.

>In prepared text for a speech Thursday, Lu Shaye said he’s saddened Canada-China relations are at what he called a “freezing point.”

>The Huawei executive’s arrest has enraged China, which has since detained two Canadians on allegations of endangering Chinese national security, sentenced two Canadians to death for drug-related convictions and blocked key agricultural shipments.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2019/05/23/canada-china-relations-hit-rock-bottom-and-at-freezing-point-according-to-chinese-envoy.html

Why is China so upset about Meng Wanzhou when she has been caught in crime?

Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei is former director of the telecoms research arm of the People's Liberation Army. As well as a former Chinese officer who served during the Cultural Revolution and is currently a high-ranking Communist Party member.

CSIS warned Canadian universities of security risks when working with Huawei

https://www.theepochtimes.com/universities-warned-to-be-wary-of-research-partnerships-with-huawei_2743679.html

What political influence does China have over the Canadian economy?

What jobs could a deferred prosecution agreement on SNC-Lavalin save?

>SNC-Lavalin and China signed agreements for Candu nuclear reactor technology

>Canadian construction and engineering giant SNC-Lavalin has signed two separate co-operation agreements with China that showcase its Candu nuclear reactor technology. Montreal-based SNC has agreed to jointly develop and pursue power generation, mining and nuclear projects with the China National Nuclear Corp. in China and internationally. As well, Candu Energy, a unit of SNC-Lavalin, will work with China Nuclear Power Engineering Company Ltd. to build two nuclear reactors in Romania.

>The agreements, signed in Vancouver on Thursday, have the potential to generate billions of dollars for the Canadian economy, said Preston Swafford, chief nuclear officer at SNC-Lavalin Group Inc.

>China has previously announced plans to build more than 500 nuclear reactors over the next 50 years.

https://www.thestar.com/business/2014/07/24/snclavalin_china_sign_agreements_for_candu_nuclear_reactor_technology.html

Chinese billionaire Ng Lap Seng was also part of a Democratic fund-raising scandal when Bill Clinton was president

>Hillary Clinton recently blasted the hidden financial dealings exposed in the Panama Papers, but she and her husband have multiple connections with people who have used the besieged law firm Mossack Fonseca to establish offshore entities.

>Among them are Gabrielle Fialkoff, finance director for Hillary Clinton’s first campaign for the U.S. Senate; Frank Giustra, a Canadian mining magnate who has traveled the globe with Bill Clinton; a member of the Chagoury family, which pledged $1 billion in projects to the Clinton Global Initiative; and Chinese billionaire Ng Lap Seng, who was at the center of a Democratic fund-raising scandal when Bill Clinton was president. Also using the Panamanian law firm was the company founded by the late billionaire investor Marc Rich, an international fugitive when Bill Clinton pardoned him in the final hours of his presidency.

https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article72215012.html

Canadian billionaire Frank Giustra at centre of Clinton Uranium One scandal

https://www.therebel.media/canadian_billionaire_frank_giustra_at_the_centre_of_clinton_uranium_one_scandal

Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton-foundation-as-russians-pressed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html

In 2017 Ng Lap Seng was convicted in a United Nations bribery case

>A Chinese billionaire who wanted to build a United Nations center in Macau and was accused of illegally paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to U.N. ambassadors to make it happen was convicted at his bribery trial on Thursday.

>The verdict was returned in Manhattan federal court against Ng Lap Seng, one of China's richest men. Ng was convicted of bribery, conspiracy and money laundering charges.

>Acting U.S. Attorney Joon H. Kim said in a statement Thursday evening that "billionaire Ng Lap Seng corrupted the highest levels of the United Nations."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ng-lap-seng-convicted-united-nations-bribery-case-new-york/