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Former justice minister and attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould will testify at a hearing of the House of Commons’ justice committee this afternoon about allegations she was inappropriately pressured to prevent Montreal-based company SNC-Lavalin from being prosecuted in a bribery case. While it has been more than two weeks since the Globe and Mail reported the allegations, this is expected to be Wilson-Raybould’s first substantial public statement on the matter.
We’ll update this post in real-time, breaking out what Wilson-Raybould says about the key moments in the SNC-Lavalin affair. Key momentsWilson-Raybould started her testimony with a strong statement saying she there was a “consistent and sustained effort to seek to politically interfere” to secure a deferred prosecution agreement for SNC-Lavalin. Wilson-Raybould said it involved 11 people and ran from September until December of last year.
Wilson-Raybould said it is inappropriate for anyone in the government to press “the Attorney General on things he/she cannot take into account,” such as partisan political concerns.In his testimony before the justice committee last week, Michael Wernick, the clerk of the privy council and Canada’s top public servant, said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau assured Wilson-Raybould at this September meeting that the decision on whether to prosecute SNC-Lavalin was “her call.”The Dec.
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