Wednesday 20 February 2019

Wilson-Raybould waited more than 2 hours for permission to attend Tuesday's cabinet meeting

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Wilson-Raybould waited more than 2 hours for permission to attend Tuesday's cabinet meeting





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David Amos
David Amos
The number of comments that went "Poof" since I refreshed this web page was truly astounding



Doug Edmunds
Doug Edmunds
@David Amos
Welcome to the seebeesee!



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David Allan 
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Chris Spiers
I can imagine the conversation:

Hussein: She is Un-Canadian
McKenna: Da she has caused climate change with her hot air
Sajjan: You know I was once an AG and held my ground
Morneau: well she won't be staying at my Villa next Spring
ShameUs: You have a Villa?


liette lapointe
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liette lapointe
@Chris Spiers she wasnt allowed cause buuts was on the phone giving instructions maybe


David Allan
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David Allan
@liette lapointe

People who read the article know the facts. 
You should try.

Chris Spiers
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Chris Spiers
@David Allan

Facts? You want the Facts, you cant handle the facts!

But I'll give you some comedy from the Troop of Liberal jesters

Matt Thuaii
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Matt Thuaii
@Chris Spiers

...I see you will give us reheated cliches from old movies...fever dreams from rightwing fan fiction...I’m guessing even manufactured downvotes...

...but no...no facts.

David Amos
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David Amos
@Chris Spiers "I'll give you some comedy from the Troop of Liberal jesters"

Welcome to the Circus

Phil Mein
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Phil Mein
@Chris Spiers No profanity , on topic, and truthful,, thanks for the opportunity to be silenced on my own dime CBC

mo bennett
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mo bennett
@David Allan r u the pot or kettle today?

David Amos
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David Amos
@mo bennett Methinks its rather obvious that you are the crackpot trying to calling me a kettle N'esy Pas?

Ewan Cameron
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Ewan Cameron
@Phil Mein
$600M media slush fund buys a lot of censorship Phil.


Phil Mein
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Phil Mein
@Ewan Cameron $600 M was a top up!! But yes I agree.

Al Ricci
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Al Ricci
@Chris Spiers
LOL, I needed that laugh. Thank you Sir!

Wayne Underhill
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Wayne Underhill
@Chris Spiers Where are your facts. Name one I dare you!


Wayne Underhill
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Wayne Underhill
@Wayne Underhill I guess Chris is still researching!

Chris Spiers
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Chris Spiers
@Wayne Underhill

conveniently all my answers are sanitized by the LPC PR department

Chris Spiers
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Chris Spiers
@Wayne Underhill

Feel free to look up you Ministers and their faux pas

Lindsay Stephenson
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Lindsay Stephenson
@David Allan" People who read the article know the facts."

No. People who read the article know what CBC wants them to know.

Mark Twain once quipped “If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”

David Amos
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David Amos
@Lindsay Stephenson Confucius said To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Google T-1557-15











mo bennett
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Randy Miles
Why won't you waive the solicitor-client privilege?

Trudeau: It is complicated. Um um um, ah ah ah.

He is the master of appearing to say a lot, but actually saying nothing.


Christian Jane
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Christian Jane
@Randy Miles Not the master. Good at it, but not the master. There's a lot of competition.

David Amos
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David Amos
@Christian Jane He is not even good at it

Nico De Jong
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Nico De Jong
@Christian Jane
Like....the whole Liberal cabinet - the ALL do it. Talk a lot, but avoid answering the question.

Wayne Underhill
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Wayne Underhill
@Nico De Jong I remember the Tories under Harper doing just that don't you?


Lindsay Stephenson
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Lindsay Stephenson
@Randy Miles I'm sure it has to do with saving the environment while growing the economy, or perhaps working hard for the middle class. But, it does take time to pick the appropriate platitude. With any luck he'll take his shirt off while doing the Bagma to a Tragically Hip hit.

 
Piet Bloem
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Piet Bloem
@Randy Miles
Actually it was "Um, ah um, ah, ah, um."
Not exactly masterful speech.


David Amos
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David Amos
@Lindsay Stephenson Methinks truth is stranger than fiction and anyone can easily Google "David Amos Federal Court file No." in order to sort out the truth from fiction for themselves. Its blatantly obvious that Mr Trudeau had a duty to talk to Harper's Minister of justice and Peter MacKay and had them pay particular attention to info found within statement 83 of my lawsuit long before the election in October of 2015

Everybody knows why I am about to put the aforementioned matter before the Supreme Court and file several more lawsuits in the Federal Court against the RCMP and the CRA etc and also run for a seat in Parliament again N'esy Pas?










Wayne Underhill 
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Randy Miles
Would I vote for Trudeau or Trump, if the latter were Canadian? Trump of course. Trump is a bad dude, but he never pretends to be good. In contrast, our PM is a phony.

Pierre Latraverse
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Pierre Latraverse
@Randy Miles Trudeau's phoniness is pretty much an image of Canada as a whole.

Al Kap
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Al Kap
@Randy Miles
Hmmmm....Trudeau may be phony but is he dangerous and unpredictable?

em tae
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em tae
@Al Kap

yes

Myke Lee
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Myke Lee
@Al Kap absolutely

David Amos
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David Amos
@Randy Miles Methinks I should be grateful that your logic escapes me N'esy Pas?

David Amos
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David Amos
@Pierre Latraverse "Trudeau's phoniness is pretty much an image of Canada as a whole"

Methinks we have every right to not think much of you N'esy Pas?

Nico De Jong
Nico De Jong
@Randy Miles
As phony as they come - easily dupes the easily duped, though.


Karen King
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Karen King
@Nico De Jong

talk about easily duped, Randy is doing just that...


David Amos
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David Amos 
@Nico De Jong Trust that Gerald Butts, Andrew Scheer and everyone else who sits in opposition know that Jody Wilson-Raybould may have lost her mandate as Justice Minister because of her failings in Federal Court and the Federal Court of Appeal within my lawsuit against the Crown that was filed when Harper was the Prime Minister and Mr Scheer was the Speaker. Need I say that it irritated me big time when Jody appointed her Deputy Minister to the bench of Federal Court not long after I argued their minions in the Federal Court of Appeal?

Methinks anyone can check my work by simply Googling two names "Jody Wilson-Raybould David Raymond Amos" N'esy Pas?










Mike Martin
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Randy Miles
Compared with Trudeau, Trump is Mother Theresa.


Mike Martin
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Mike Martin
@Randy Miles
Oh please!

em tae
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em tae
@Randy Miles

the only difference is Trump is right on far more than given credit for. JT is wrong than far more than he is given credit for.

Chris Behnke
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Chris Behnke
@em tae best comparison of the two I have ever seen.

David Amos
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David Amos
@Randy Miles "Compared with Trudeau, Trump is Mother Theresa"

Methinks you are merely trying to pick a fight N'esy Pas?

Richard Donald
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Richard Donald
@David Amos every post mark with N'esy Pas? is obviously and attempt to be irritating and merely pick a fight.... N'esy Pas?

David Amos
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David Amos
@Richard Donald Wrong Methinks you should ask your buddies why because they know I have explained the reason way too many times already N'esy Pas?

Molly Earl
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Molly Earl
@Richard Donald totally agree, very annoying.

Wayne Underhill
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Wayne Underhill
@Randy Miles Turns out that she wasn't a saint in reality.


David Amos
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David Amos
@Molly Earl Cry me a river











earl dajar
William Knot
Must be quite a story if it took 'em two hours to get it straight!


earl dajar
earl dajar
@William Knot

must be a really hot cup of coffee and a big pizza slice

David Amos
David Amos
@William Knot Mais Oui

mo bennett
mo bennett
@William Knot nope! it just took 'em that long to figure out how to unlock the door.

Phil Mein
Phil Mein
@earl dajar I saw no mention that it took 2 hrs because they were having lunch, or were you trying to make a joke or....?

Wayne Underhill
Wayne Underhill
@mo bennett Harper must have run with the key.


David Amos
David Amos
@William Knot Confucius said To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Google T-1557-15


David Amos
David Amos
@William Knot How does it feel to make it to the top?











Chris Spiers
Robert Romano
This is surely not what Trudeau promised in the 2015 elections. He promised to run government better and run the government in a clear open transparent fashion. We are not seeing Trudeau keeping his promises from his recent actions. Trudeau the truth will come out sooner or later either way it will come to the light of day so Canadians can really see how you run your government!


Chris Spiers
Chris Spiers
@Robert Romano

This is not his first failed promise. Transparency went out the window days after he took office, Just ask Admiral Norman

Matt Thuaii
Matt Thuaii
@Robert Romano

Shame! Panic! Calamity!

Quick everyone, vote Conservative as fast as you can!

David Amos
David Amos
@Chris Spiers "Just ask Admiral Norman"

Google Admiral Norman David Amos

Methinks many people know that I contacted his lawyers long ago Too Bad So Sad they did not pay attention then N'esy Pas?

JimHelbig
JimHelbig
@Matt Thuaii Non sequitur.

mo bennett
mo bennett
@David Amos C'mon, dave, ya just know that ya gotta ask scottie that question, messy paws?

David Amos
David Amos
@mo bennett I did out of the gate












Glenn Coco 
Glenn Coco
Funny how we continue to address our politicians as "the honourable"


Christian Jane
Christian Jane
@Glenn Coco I've thought so for a long time, and I've stopped doing so (except for the few who've earned the title. Jody Wilson-Raybould is one.

Lori Cameron
Lori Cameron
@Glenn Coco
Funny isnt my word of choice, but alright!

Bill Lewis
Bill Lewis
@Christian Jane Oh really. What has she done to earn your unbridled respect ?

Nico De Jong
Nico De Jong
@Glenn Coco
We don't - they do.

David Amos
David Amos
@Glenn Coco "Funny how we continue to address our politicians as "the honourable"

Methinks many people know that I never found that funny at all N'esy Pas?

Google "Harper and Bankers" if you wish to read an old rant of mine


Ewan Cameron
Ewan Cameron
@David Amos
Who really cares David?

David Amos
David Amos
@Ewan Cameron Trudeau











Nico De Jong 
Nelson Potter
A true Liberal thru and thru … Party before country


Reid Fleming
Reid Fleming
@Nelson Potter And some members of the party before others...

David Amos
David Amos
@Nelson Potter Lawyers know nothing of loyalty










Wayne Underhill 
Phil Mein
Open and transparent as cement , ethical? 4 violations so far ...Is this because it's 2019?


David Amos
David Amos
@Phil Mein Nope Admiral Norman knows its SNAFU


Scotty Davidson
Scotty Davidson
@Phil Mein Could be more but a related article says the new ethics watchdog stopped doing it's job in 2017...

David Amos
David Amos
@Scotty Davidson Two former Attorney Generals and many of the Judges in Federal Court are well aware that I crossed paths big time with the corrupt lawyer Dion in 2014 when he was the Commissioner of Public Sector Integrity Why he quit under Harper and then applied for his new job under Trudeau was astounding











Wayne Underhill  
Paul Aumuller
Closed doors is tranparency and Bribery saves jobs! New Liberal mantra.


David Allan
David Allan
@Paul Aumuller

It's a cabinet meeting. They need the ability to speak plainly and freely. They must bounce ideas around.

Why they discuss is irrelevant.
What they decide is what we already have the right to know.

It has been the way of every cabinet in every democracy in the world.

David Amos
David Amos
@David Allan Methinks everybody knows that all the real power resides within the secretive walls of the PCO N'esy Pas?

Wayne Underhill
Wayne Underhill
@David Amos Somebody told me the other day that Scheer said he knew eff nothing then he said "I know eff all!"


David Amos
David Amos
@Wayne Underhill He is member of the Privy Council so he definitely did More importantly he is one of the main reasons I sued the Crown in 2015











Daryl McBride 
Daryl McBride
Harper waived solicitor-client privilege, Trudeau is less transparent than Harper. Say's a lot Liberals.


Danny Tanker
Danny Tanker
@Daryl McBride

You just said that.

Kim Luciano
Kim Luciano
@Danny Tanker Worth repeating.

Danny Tanker
Danny Tanker
@Kim Luciano

To Alzheimer's patients.

will morgan
will morgan
@Daryl McBride

What was "Good to go from the PM"? Still waiting.

Kim Luciano
Kim Luciano
@Danny Tanker For your benefit then.

Danny Tanker
Danny Tanker
@Kim Luciano

Nasty and a low brow response that is typically right wing.

jim miller
jim miller
@Daryl McBride he didn't wave that.
Fake news.

John West
John West
@Daryl McBride harper knew he was not going to go to jail.

Kim Luciano
Kim Luciano
@Danny Tanker Yes and invoking a crippling and devastating disease is not. Time for a time out Danny.

Bert van
Bert van
@Daryl McBride Did he waive privilege to get his piano video posted?

Steve Davidson
Steve Davidson
@Daryl McBride So did Martin during Adscam.

David Amos
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David Amos
@Daryl McBride Methinks you should scroll up and review some of my comments before they evaporate again N'esy Pas?


David Amos
David Amos
@Daryl McBride "Say's a lot Liberals"

YUP


David Amos
David Amos
@Danny Tanker "Nasty and a low brow response that is typically right wing."

Methinks the Fake Left are guilty of the same thing N'esy Pas?












Reid Fleming 
Reid Fleming
The most (criminally) transparent government in Canadian history...


Christian Jane
Christian Jane
@Reid Fleming Boy, you don't know much Canadian history, do you?

Douglas Oneschuk
Douglas Oneschuk
@Reid Fleming
Nope.
Conservatives win that one 10 to 5.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_scandals_in_Canada

Douglas Oneschuk
Douglas Oneschuk
@Douglas Oneschuk
LOL! Dislikes from ten people who don't like facts. I wonder who they are affiliated with?

David Amos
David Amos
@Reid Fleming "The most (criminally) transparent government in Canadian history..."

Methinks that may be the understatement of the year N'esy Pas?












Douglas Oneschuk 
Norm Dixon
the corruption is now overflowing the toilet bowl!!!


David Allan
David Allan
@Norm Dixon

Why?
Because once again the Libs broke with tradition to be more inclusive?

Nico De Jong
Nico De Jong
@David Allan
Yeah, okay LOL LOL LOL LOL

Jim Lauzon
Jim Lauzon
@David Allan

Wow, most ridiculous reply ever?

David Amos
David Amos
@Jim Lauzon YUP


David Amos
David Amos
@David Allan "Why? Because once again the Libs broke with tradition to be more inclusive?"

Nope Even you are witness to this nonsense today EH?










Jim Lauzon 
Daryl McBride
Harper looks pretty good right now, at least he waive solicitor-client privilege.


Steve Kennedy
Steve Kennedy
@Daryl McBride

No he won't. He would prorogue parliament, like he did twice.

Chance Johnstone
Chance Johnstone
@Steve Kennedy
All good moves for the good of the Country.

Graham Greene
Graham Greene
@Chance Johnstone

And that is what I feel Trudeau is doing by maintaining control of this file.

Its all for the good of the country.

Chance Johnstone
Chance Johnstone
@Graham Greene
SNC Lavalin is not "the country"

Steve Kennedy
Steve Kennedy
@Chance Johnstone

When thousands of good paying jobs are on the line, it sure is.

Myke Lee
Myke Lee
@Steve Kennedy wow....

Barry Martini
Barry Martini
@Steve Kennedy

EXACTLT....and deferred prosecution is STANDARD in cases like this.

Chance Johnstone
Chance Johnstone
@Steve Kennedy
No jobs are being lost. Their workers can work at other firms or the new owners of SNC when that happens. Unlike the energy sector this move does not cripple an industry.

Allen Hurst
Allen Hurst
@Steve Kennedy well 10,000 jobs lost in Alberta alone. 32,700 women lost full time employment in the western provinces in the last two months.
Why are those jobs any less important?

wal wiseman
wal wiseman
@Steve Kennedy thousands of good paying jobs are not on the line. The jobs are Canadian infrastructure jobs in Canada. The work isn't going anywhere, just which Canadian company does the job.

Steve Kennedy
Steve Kennedy
@Allen Hurst

You sound like those Alberta truckers, complaining about a lack of work when there are countless trucking jobs right across this country.

Steve Kennedy
Steve Kennedy
@wal wiseman

Huh, SNC is an international company.

Jack O Hill
Jack O Hill
@Steve Kennedy

"When thousands of good paying jobs are on the line, it sure is."

So, none of those engineers will get picked up by the companies that take over the contracts?

Unusual theory.

Jack O Hill
Jack O Hill
@Barry Martini

"EXACTLT....and deferred prosecution is STANDARD in cases like this."

Actually, based on the number of incidents, and the size of the bribes; they are almost certainly NOT eligible.

Nico De Jong
Nico De Jong
@Daryl McBride
Harper would win by a landslide if he was running in the next election.

Rick Guthrie
Rick Guthrie
@Steve Kennedy
So it's ok to allow crimes to occur as long as it saves jobs. I see, ok, I understand now.

David Amos
David Amos
@Rick Guthrie I certainly don't




Wilson-Raybould waited more than 2 hours for permission to attend Tuesday's cabinet meeting: sources

Ministers debated the optics of letting their former colleague address them after quitting cabinet


Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, right, continues to be dogged by questions about the demotion and subsequent cabinet resignation of former justice minister and attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould. (Canadian Press)

Jody Wilson-Raybould spent more than two hours waiting outside the cabinet room on Tuesday while her former colleagues hotly debated her request to address them about the SNC-Lavalin affair.

Multiple sources tell CBC News that some cabinet ministers were concerned about the optics of her unprecedented request to attend a meeting of the inner circle just a week after she'd quit cabinet.

Wilson-Raybould has been at the centre of a burgeoning scandal over allegations that she felt pressured last fall by unnamed people inside the Prime Minister's Office to intervene in the criminal prosecution of SNC-Lavalin.






The allegations, first reported by the Globe and Mail two weeks ago, have rocked the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and led Monday to the resignation of the prime minister's long-time friend and senior adviser, Gerald Butts — who continued to deny the claim that he or anyone else in his office pressured Wilson-Raybould over SNC-Lavalin.

Power and Politics
Feb. 19: Jody Wilson-Raybould speaks to cabinet

 One of Trudeau's cabinet ministers Ralph Goodale discusses his former colleague's surprise appearance today. Plus: Eric Grenier on the controversy's impact on the polls, and a pro-pipeline convoy arrives in Ottawa. 1:42:51

"But the fact is that this accusation exists," Butts wrote in his resignation letter. "My reputation is my responsibility and that is for me to defend."

The sources tell CBC that Wilson-Raybould contacted the prime minister the next morning, just before the cabinet meeting, asking to attend.

The prime minister took her request to cabinet, sparking a vigorous debate.

The sources say Labour Minister Patty Hajdu was among those arguing for giving Wilson-Raybould permission to speak to cabinet. The prime minister finally agreed.
What Wilson-Raybould told them during the hour or so she attended cabinet isn't clear — but sources say she was unapologetic.

It's the latest twist in a two-week long drama that's put Trudeau and his government on the defensive.

He's been subjected to an almost daily barrage of questions about what he knew and when, why Wilson-Raybould had resigned and whether he had pressured her personally in any way.

Trudeau's answers so far have done nothing to quell the controversy. He first declared the allegation was false but conceded a day later that there had been discussions in the fall with Wilson-Raybould about SNC-Lavalin's efforts to obtain a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) — which would allow the Montreal firm to pay a fine but avoid a criminal trial.

A week into the affair, the prime minister revealed that he had met with Wilson-Raybould on Sept 17 — almost two weeks after federal prosecutors told SNC-Lavalin it would not be invited to negotiate a DPA — and that she asked him if he was going to direct her to make a specific decision in the case.




The National

He's been called Trudeau's right hand man, so who really is Gerald Butts?

 In a major shakeup to the highest ranks of the Prime Minister's Office, Gerald Butts resigned as Justin Trudeau's principal secretary. Along with Katie Telford, the Prime Minister's chief of staff, the trio formed the centre of decision making of this government. So who is Trudeau's right hand man? 2:24

"There were many discussions going on, which is why Jody Wilson-Raybould asked me if I was directing her or going to direct her to take a particular decision," Trudeau said last Friday. "And I of course said no, that it was her decision to make and I expected her to make it."

Wilson-Raybould has declined repeatedly to speak publicly about the case, arguing she is still bound by solicitor-client privilege due to her former role as attorney general. She's hired former supreme court justice Thomas Cromwell to advise her on what she can say.

Trudeau also has asked David Lametti, Wilson-Raybould's successor as attorney general, for an opinion on whether he can waive the privilege without jeopardizing the ongoing court case.
Wilson-Raybould insists she remains a Liberal MP and on Wednesday attended the first weekly caucus meeting since the story broke.

She also has said she will appear as a witness before the Commons justice committee, which is looking into the allegations, but cautioned she will continue to cite solicitor-client privilege in answering questions.

About the Author

 


Chris Hall
National Affairs Editor
Chris Hall is the CBC's National Affairs Editor and host of The House on CBC Radio, based in the Parliamentary Bureau in Ottawa. He began his reporting career with the Ottawa Citizen, before moving to CBC Radio in 1992, where he worked as a national radio reporter in Toronto, Halifax and St. John's. He returned to Ottawa and the Hill in 1998.

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