Former senior staffer offered different account than former justice minister.
Liberal MPs around B.C. spoke in support of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Wednesday after Gerald Butts, his former principal secretary, gave testimony to a House committee in Ottawa on the SNC-Lavalin affair that clashed with a version of events set out by Jody Wilson-Raybould, the former justice minister.
John Aldag, the MP for Cloverdale-Langley City, said Butts’s testimony hadn’t changed his perspective. Sukh Dhaliwal, the MP for Surrey-Newton, also said his confidence in Trudeau’s leadership stood, and he referenced the PM’s support for an investigation by the ethics commissioner into the matter “to ensure we are able to gain the complete facts.”
Joyce Murray, MP for Vancouver Quadra, sent a letter to constituents Wednesday with her take on the affair. She said: “In a truly diverse and representative cabinet, a range of perspectives on a common event should be considered healthy and normal. People inevitably experience an event or conversation through the lens of their own unique personality and background.”Ken Hardie, MP for Fleetwood-Port Kells, spoke to the heart of the dispute over what to do with SNC-Lavalin.
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