Attempts to contact 17 Liberal B.C. MPs unsuccessful thus far in the wake of the former justice minister’s testimony to a House committee.
B.C. Liberal MPs are avoiding public comment one day after Vancouver Granville Liberal MP and former justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould testified before a House of Commons justice committee that she received “veiled threats” from senior members of the federal government in the SNC-Lavalin affair.
On Wednesday in Ottawa, Wilson-Raybould told the committee that over four months in late 2018 she was pressured — by Finance Minister Bill Morneau and his staff, Clerk of the Privy Council Michael Wernick, senior aides in the Prime Minister’s Office including former principal secretary Gerald Butts and chief of staff Katie Telford, and even Prime Minister Justin Trudeau himself — to direct federal prosecutors to defer the prosecution of SNC-Lavalin on corruption and fraud charges and instead...
Although he has not responded to Postmedia’s inquiries, Mission-Matsqui-Fraser Canyon Liberal MP Jati Sidhu told The Abbotsford News on Thursday in an interview that he thought Wilson-Raybould’s testimony was “sour grapes” and he thought she lacked experience.
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