The revelations were so shocking that it left the government of ‘sunny ways’ under a black cloud and Canada looking like a corrupt Third World banana republic
Where to begin? Well, it sounded and felt like a death knell for the Liberal government of Justin Trudeau.
The stink so envelops the Prime Minister himself, many of his staffers, Finance Minister Bill Morneau and his chief of staff, and the Clerk of the Privy Council, Michael Wernick, that if they had a shred of integrity, which is very much in doubt, some if not all of them would resign. They worked her deputy, Nathalie Drouin, worked around Wilson-Raybould as it were, believing her more pliable.Even as the preliminary hearing into the charges against SNC was underway and later, in October, even when SNC had filed a motion in Federal Court seeking to overturn the Roussel/Wilson-Raybould decision, the pressure continued.
Wilson-Raybould looked him in the eye and asked, not, as he has said, if he was directing her, but rather, “Are you politically interfering with my role, my decision, as the AG?After a brief pause in the pressure tactics, that would soon become the code: The PM needed to find a solution. On Dec. 5, she met with Gerry Butts, the PM’s principal secretary who recently resigned. He told her they needed a solution. “I said no” and referenced the two cases before the courts.Here, Wilson-Raybould read part of a text between her and Prince right after that meeting.Butts told her, “Jess, there is no solution here that doesn’t involve some interference.”
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