Andrew Scheer spars with Liberal government over libel threat in SNC-Lavalin affair GlobePolitics
, but she warned the Official Opposition Leader that he was at legal risk if he continued to say that Mr. Trudeau actually interfered in the criminal prosecution of SNC-Lavalin Group Inc.She alleged that Mr. Scheer has previously deleted tweets that were defamatory, suggesting he had done so again with the accusations against Mr. Trudeau.
The accusations follow two months of political turmoil over SNC-Lavalin. Former attorney-general Jody Wilson-Raybould told a Commons committee last month that she had come under inappropriate pressure from the Prime Minister’s Office to defer fraud and bribery charges against the company. However, Ms. Chagger said Mr. Scheer deleted a tweet on Feb. 11 that alleged “potential criminality” in the SNC-Lavalin affair. She said it appears on March 31, the day he would have received legal threats from Mr. Trudeau’s lawyer, that Mr. Scheer deleted another tweet and reposted it with softer language. In December, she added, Mr. Scheer deleted another tweet on a different matter after he was served with a libel notice by Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains.
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