Wilson-Raybould says SNC-Lavalin scandal a ‘wake-up call’ and May says two former cabinet ministers to change ‘old boys club’ from the inside

Meanwhile, former Liberal MP Mary Clancy says the SNC-Lavalin controversy is a ‘bump in the road’ and said Liberal MPs have full confidence in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s leadership.

Former cabinet ministers Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott want to stay in the Liberal caucus and still want to run again, but Liberal MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes, right, who is not running again, publicly criticized the prime minister's leadership style. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

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BY ABBAS RANA

March 18, 2019

The ongoing SNC-Lavalin saga has yielded an unintended consequence for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who appointed the first-ever gender-balanced federal cabinet and promoted MPs who are not deeply-rooted partisans to the front benches: it's brought “change from inside” by federal lawmakers who...

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