Team Trudeau out-played by its corporate pals

The government sacrificed two excellent and honourable cabinet ministers, handed a bludgeon to its political opponents, made itself vulnerable to more 'jobs blackmail' in Elizabeth May’s words, and made a mockery of the prime minister’s earnest tributes to 'an independent judiciary.'

In his testimony earlier last week before the Commons Justice Committee, Gerald Butts, pictured March 6, 2019, took up the refrain, insisting that, 'when 9,000 people’s jobs are at stake, it's a public policy problem.'The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SUSAN RILEY

March 11, 2019

CHELSEA, QUE.—It became obvious last week that Prime Minister Trudeau’s office relentlessly—and improperly—pushed former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould to get a second opinion on whether engineering giant SNC-Lavalin should be exempted from criminal prosecution resulting from bribery ...

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