SNC-Lavalin and Wilson-Raybould resignation has hit federal government hard

It’s early innings, but the government has stuck its thumb where it must almost never go—into the pie of the criminal justice system. But instead of a plum, they pulled out a scandal.

Jody Wilson-Raybould, left, who resigned from cabinet over the whole SNC-Lavalin Group Inc., and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Did Canada’s first Indigenous justice minister get a career path change to Veterans Affairs because she refused to overrule her director of public prosecutions? The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY MICHAEL HARRIS

February 25, 2019

HALIFAX—The Jody Wilson-Raybould cabinet resignation/SNC-Lavalin controversy has hit the Liberal government hard. The first person hit was Gerald Butts, the prime minister’s university buddy and handler. His departure as principal secretary was as unexpected as Donald Trump passing a lie det...

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