Liberals are defending Justin Trudeau's threatened libel suit against Andrew Scheer, arguing that the Conservative leader's editing or deleting online statements proves he knows he's gone too far in criticizing the prime minister's handling of the SNC-Lavalin affair.
"The leader of the Opposition pretends that he will not back down and he tries to make a show out of it," Government House leader Bardish Chagger told the House of Commons on Monday. "We know that is false because while he is saying that, he has already been editing online statements or erasing them entirely."
"Canadians are looking forward to the prime minister finally appearing under oath and testifying in a setting that he, himself, cannot control," Scheer said, repeatedly asking the government to set a date for legal proceedings to begin."No, I have not deleted tweets because I stand by everything I said in those statements," he said.
Chagger pointed to another tweet Scheer posted on Feb. 11, in which he asserted there is "potentially criminality at play in the Prime Minister's Office." That tweet was deleted, she said.
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