After explosive testimony from the PM's former justice minister and attorney general, the Tory leader said Trudeau 'lost the moral authority to govern'
Former justice minister and attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould had barely finished several hours of testimony to a parliamentary committee, during which she accused several top Liberals including the Prime Minister of political interference, when Opposition leader Andrew Scheer called for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s resignation. Here is Scheer’s full statement.
The testimony Canadians have just heard from the former Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould tells the story of a Prime Minister who has lost the moral authority to govern. A Prime Minister who allows his partisan political motivations to overrule his duty to uphold the rule of law. A Prime Minister who doesn’t know where the Liberal Party ends and where the Government of Canada begins.
Before Ms. Wilson-Raybould’s testimony, Canadians knew Justin Trudeau had engineered an unwanted, sustained, and co-ordinated attempt to get Ms. Wilson-Raybould to change her mind and stop the criminal trial of SNC-Lavalin. Today, thanks to Ms. Wilson-Raybould’s testimony, we now know just how intense those efforts were: ten meetings and ten phone calls involving eleven senior government officials relentlessly targeting Ms.
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