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Wonder why she didn’t say anything before?

crosses the floor. She has too much integrity for the Libs as they are now.

that this is a calculated gamble ...he will be seen in  
Quebec as having done 'everything possible' to save  
jobs ...and therefore will be forgiven and even generate  
more support in Quebec ...if Ontario does not react totally badly , , then he is safe. The rest of us mean very little in the big picture come election time.

Of any PM to leave no stone unturned in efforts to save jobs. Same with saving pipeline jobs out west or GM workers in Ontario.  
Remember when she was asked if anyone actually crossed the line and broke the law she immediately said no.  
Do you think at any time she picked up the phone or met with the minister of Indigenous affairs in an effort to push for some thing on behalf of her people. Of course she has but such behaviour by her is just ok then. Politics is a blood sport and people lobbying for something happens every minute of every day.

I see what you're getting at here. But I'm unconvinced this is in the same league. Back room deals and back scratching is very much part of politics. While he didn't technically break the letter of any law, he definately broke the spirit of it.  
 
Also, I intensely dislike how he's handled it. He could have disfused it weeks ago by just taking the high road and saying, "Yes, this is what we did and maybe it wasn't the right way to do it but I was trying to save jobs." There would have been initial backlash, but it would have run the 24-hour news cycle and be over with. He could have even probably gotten away with basically demoting her had he just admitted it.  
 
Instead, we get this continuing song and dance about how none of it happened and the double-speak regarding his version of events ("disgree with characterisation" = I don't disagree with the events?, similar to when she resigned and "her actions were not consistent with conversations in recent weeks" = she didn't do what she was told?).

She was told that hundreds or thousands of jobs would be at risk due to them not being able to bid on new work. Would that be intimidation or just telling the truth? Is it a crime to ask someone to carefully consider their decision?  
 
Ultimately the prosecution went forward as planned.

Trudeau is only worried about Quebec. He hasn’t worried about jobs in any other province so it’s kind of a slap in the face to the rest of Canada to say this is about jobs. Also the majority if not all the trades people would find new jobs with the current or new companies that would take SNC’s place. Companies that haven’t found themselves on The World Banks corruption list.