He repeatedly said he believed nobody from the Prime Minister’s Office had done anything wrong
On Wednesday, Gerald Butts delivered a 33-minute opening statement and answered more than an hour and a half of questions from MPs on the committee with regard to the SNC-Lavalin scandal.
The cabinet shuffle eventually saw her moved from the Justice Department to Veterans Affairs. When he spoke with Wilson-Raybould about her being shuffled, Butts recalled that she asked him if the move was related to the SNC-Lavalin affair and he told her it wasn’t. Butts said he was genuinely surprised that someone he had spent so much time with — and someone Trudeau had spent time with — could interpret the shuffle in “such a dark light.
My main political concern was our position in the Maritimes, specifically my home province of Nova Scotia. Mr. Casey had announced his retirement, and Mr. Fraser had told us he wouldn’t run again. I knew if the Prime Minister chose a minister from the class of 2015, Mr. Cuzner and Mr. Eyking could interpret that as a signal and perhaps not run again either.
Wilson-Raybould didn’t, he said, and it seemed she solicited further meetings on the matter and welcomed further advice.NDP justice critic Murray Rankin raised Jane Philpott’s resignation from cabinet on Monday, and particularly her public letter outlining her concerns about the SNC-Lavalin affair and saying that she had lost confidence in the government’s handling of the issue.
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