Booting Butts is only moving the frying pan to a different SNC-Lavalin fire

Gerald Butts is a highly skilled warrior, but it’s hard to imagine a scenario where fighting Jody Wilson-Raybould in public helps the government.

The resignation of Gerald Butts, top political adviser to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, won’t take the heat off of the PMO as hoped, writes Tim Powers. The Hill Times photograph by Cynthia Münster

Opinion

BY TIM POWERS

February 20, 2019

Clearly, it's Scott Brison's fault that Gerry Butts has resigned and the government looks like a hot mess. After all, according to the prime minister in one of his most bizarre comments in recent memory, Jody Wilson-Raybould would still have been justice minister if Brison hadn't called time on his ...

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