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Originally Posted by GioforPM
SNC broke the law. There was a choice of punishments. Trudeau's involvement seems to be at that end - an unsuccessful attempt to sway that choice, presumably to avoid the bankruptcy of SNC. It's wrong, but I don't see him as being corrupt like, say, Trump self dealing to enrich himself. I'd call it improperly zealous, cynically political and holding to "ends justify the means".
So my analogy is - if an energy company breaks an environmental law, there's various punishments - from cleanup to fines to shutdown. The Dept says "we are going to shut down this project". PM Scheer phones and tries hard (unsuccessfully) to get a different punishment in order to keep the project going.
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There wasn’t a choice of punishments that the government or attorney genera gets to pick.
The process is the prosecutor decides what charges to pursue. The attourney genera ensures due process is followed. That’s it. No politics.
The issue actually has nothing to do with SNC at all. It is simply using the prosecutors office for political gains.