Conservative Senator Larry Smith first made notice back on Feb. 19 of a motion he was putting forward to call for a committee study of the whole SNC-Lavalin affair. This was less than two weeks after the first news story broke in The Globe & Mail.
You would think that a chamber of sober second thought dominated by “independent” senators would be all over this issue. Lavscam is ultimately a question about the rule of law yet so far the quest for truth has been dominated by committees and Question Period exchanges between MPs treating it also like a political saga.
Don’t the senators agree that they’d be well positioned to offer up the right environment to get to the bottom of this for the benefit of the whole country?
Apparently not. Not only did the majority of senators fail to endorse Smith’s motion, but some of the words offered up against it smacked of a cover-up.
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