Cabinet confidences not ‘black or white’ says former Privy Council clerk in House Ethics Committee study of SNC-Lavalin affair

Wernick’s testimony leaves more questions than answers at hearings happening over five years after the scandal, said Democracy Watch co-founder Duff Conacher.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has consistently denied any wrongdoing either on his part, or on the part of senior officials in his government since the SNC-Lavalin affair first made headlines in 2019.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY JESSE CNOCKAERT

March 22, 2024

A former clerk of the Privy Council spoke against a “black or white” interpretation of cabinet confidentiality during a House Ethics Committee meeting last week where MPs questioned if privileges against disclosing certain cabinet details could have impeded an RCMP asses...

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