Poilievre says RCMP covered up Trudeau-era scandals
By Canadian Press on October 16, 2025.
OTTAWA — 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.
In a recent interview with YouTube channel Northern Perspective, Poilievre calls the leadership of the RCMP “despicable” and adds that many of the scandals of the Trudeau era “should have involved jail time.”
Poilievre says the former prime minister “probably” violated the criminal code during the SNC-Lavalin affair and that Trudeau did break the code when he took a “free vacation from someone with whom he had government business,” alluding to the 2016 Aga Khan scandal.
Speaking to reporters in Toronto earlier today, RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme said the SNC-Lavalin affair was discussed “quite a lot” under the previous government and that there was no interference.
Duheme says he doesn’t take orders from any politicians and invited Poilievre to meet with the RCMP to discuss his comments about the organization’s management.
Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree says Poilievre’s comments are “deeply irresponsible” and that Canadians can have full confidence in the RCMP and in its independence from political interference.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 16, 2025.
Catherine Morrison, The Canadian Press
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Many of us are wondering how he got away with some of conflicts of interest and a questionable dealings.
What is more important . . . has anyone wondering if there was a good accounting of the hundreds of billions he spread around in 5 years that left Canada with a national debt of over $1.2 trillion this year? When Trudeau first took power, the debt was $616 billion.
When he left, he almost doubled it in just a few years . . . where did it all go? We have no big military procurements, no big healthcare transfers?
The Montreal vaccine plant, Biologics Manufacturing Centre (BMC), which over $150 million was invested, yet not one vial was ever delivered. Initial cash injection of taxpayers dollars was $130 million and then $17 million annually after 2021 for payroll . . . one of the many “investments” Trudeau made!
How many $100 million investments were made, here or there with our taxdollars, that never saw those companies survive?
Where is all that money?