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Justin Trudeau wants you to know that he fully respects the decisions of Canada’s professional public servants.

As long as they line up with what helps him politically.

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The Liberals couldn’t have hoped for a worse kick-off to the election campaign than for the revelation he stopped the RCMP from gaining full access to witnesses and documents in the SNC-Lavalin case.

He did that by refusing to waive cabinet confidence so that the national police force could do their job.

What Trudeau wants you to think is that this was the decision of one man and he couldn’t possibly have changed it.

“We respect the decisions made by our professional public servants, we respect the decision made by the clerk,” Trudeau said when asked if he would grant a wider waiver.

It’s a false claim by Trudeau that he respects the decisions of “our professional public servants.”

The whole SNC-Lavalin affair is over his attempt to change the decision of the independent Director of Public Prosecution.