{"id":219602,"date":"2025-10-17T11:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T11:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/219602\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T11:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T11:05:08","slug":"poilievre-accuses-rcmp-of-covering-up-trudeau-era-scandals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/219602\/","title":{"rendered":"Poilievre accuses RCMP of covering up Trudeau-era scandals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme has invited Poilievre to meet and discuss his comments about the organization\u2019s management.Adrian Wyld\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says the RCMP covered up what he calls scandals involving former prime minister Justin Trudeau, which he says would have otherwise led to criminal charges.<\/p>\n

In a recent interview with YouTube channel Northern Perspective, Poilievre calls the leadership of the RCMP \u201cdespicable\u201d and adds that many of the scandals of the Trudeau era \u201cshould have involved jail time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Poilievre says the former prime minister \u201cprobably\u201d violated the criminal code during the SNC-Lavalin affair and that Trudeau did break the code when he took a \u201cfree vacation from someone with whom he had government business,\u201d alluding to the 2016 Aga Khan scandal.<\/p>\n

Speaking to reporters in Toronto earlier today, RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme said the SNC-Lavalin affair was discussed \u201cquite a lot\u201d under the previous government and that there was no interference.<\/p>\n

Duheme says he doesn\u2019t take orders from any politicians and invited Poilievre to meet with the RCMP to discuss his comments about the organization\u2019s management.<\/p>\n

Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree says Poilievre\u2019s comments are \u201cdeeply irresponsible\u201d and that Canadians can have full confidence in the RCMP and in its independence from political interference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme has invited Poilievre to meet and discuss his comments…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,44,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-219602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-news","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}