Former Liberal justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould walks to Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean KilpatrickOTTAWA -- Jody Wilson-Raybould finally gets the chance today to "speak her truth" about the SNC-Lavalin affair, breaking a three-week silence that has fuelled a controversy based, so far, strictly on anonymous allegations of political interference in the justice system.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau issued the waiver Monday. It covers Wilson-Raybould's time as justice minister and attorney general -- the post she held when his office is alleged to have exerted improper pressure on her last fall to halt the criminal prosecution of Montreal engineering giant SNC-Lavalin on charges of corruption and bribery related to government contracts in Libya.
"I mention this simply to alert the committee to the fact that the order-in-council leaves in place whatever restraints there are on my ability to speak freely about matters that occurred after I left the post of attorney general," she told the committee. Any questioning of Wilson-Raybould along those lines will presumably lead nowhere today. Nevertheless, Wilson-Raybould's testimony -- including a 30-minute opening statement she requested, but complained Tuesday won't be sufficient time to provide a "full, complete version of event" -- should finally provide some details about precisely what the former minister may have deemed improper pressure.
-- A Sept. 17 meeting with Trudeau and Wernick, which the clerk said was primarily focused on the stalled Indigenous rights agenda, over which he said Wilson-Raybould had "a very serious policy difference" with Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett and other ministers.
At this point she needs to just violate privilege and force them to deal with her in court. They will look bad doing so and she has sound reason to violate privilege
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