Andrew MacDougall: Until everyone involved in the scandal testifies—not just Gerry Butts—this looks like a cover-up, not a transparent process
For those of you who are algorithmically shielded from bad Liberal news, we’ve now moved from “false” after the story broke weeks ago to “yeah, well, you might think 11 people having multiple meetings or phone calls with the non-partisan attorney general or her staff over four months is pressure” after Jody Wilson-Raybould’s testimony.
But why does Butts—who people jokingly call Prime Minister Butts—get to appear, but not any of the other people accused of inappropriate behaviour in Wilson-Raybould’s testimony? If you were trying to prove to Canadians you weren’t interested in getting at the truth this would be a good way of doing it.We still, for example, don’t know why Butts suddenly quit his post on Feb. 18. There didn’t appear to be anything lethal about his conduct in the public domain to that point.
From committee testimony and/or the media, we do know Wilson-Raybould was shuffled from Justice a few short weeks after her last conversations on SNC with Butts, Katie Telford and Michael Wernick, the clerk of the privy council, who is alleged to have told Wilson-Raybould that “I think [Trudeau] is gonna find a way to get it done one way or another. So, he is in that kinda mood and I wanted you to be aware of that.”And it doesn’t take much of a conspiracy theorist to equate the final Dec.
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