OTTAWA — In his testimony on Wednesday, Gerald Butts attempted to reframe allegations that the Prime Minister’s Office had inappropriately pressured the former attorney general to offer a deferred prosecution to engineering giant SNC-Lavalin.
This is one of the central questions that could determine whether the Prime Minister’s Office placed inappropriate pressure on the former justice minister. Jody Wilson-Raybould has said that she faced months of sustained pressure to reverse a decision made by federal prosecutors on Sept. 4, which effectively barred the company from negotiating a remediation agreement.
“I just don’t buy the suggestion that there was a constant source of new information that was being provided to the prosecutors,” Quaid said. “What it sounds like is, there was a constant stream of repetition.” What was the nature of conversations between the PMO and two of its top legal advisers, Mathieu Bouchard and Elder Marques?
Marques and Bouchard were two of the leading advisers on the SNC-Lavalin file who met with members of the justice ministry and others following the Sept. 4 decision. On Wednesday, Conservative committee member Lisa Raitt put forward a motion to publicize the messages between some of the highest officials in the PMO as a way to clarify any explicit efforts to pressure the minister that might have occurred.
justwokeupjava Once again Financial Post FakeNews
The first one should be why wasn't he under oath? If that's not one of the questions then you need to revise the article
Cons have lost this battle, they put everything on the line in the hopes this was a crime, it wasn't. JWR didn't and by the sounds of it couldn't do the job PCO requested reports and she never sent them. Everyday is a sad day for a con cndpoli
Butts expects you to believe that Trudeau and his minions visited Raybould 20 times to “discuss” SNC and that it was not Political Pressure Trudeau never had Two meetings with Freeland to discuss NAFTA, worth billions, why would Liberals have 20 with Raybould over this?
Trudeau must step down for the good of Canada!
Q1) will Trudeau serve jail time? Q2) how many similar cases have gone un-prosecuted? Q3) which media are involved in the coverup? Q4) who will be the next Pm?
Only “lingering” in the view of the Post. Story is over. Move on!
Trudeau is a thug
Gerald Butts is a thug
Funny Trudope is concerned about a supposed 9k Canadian jobs for a corporation that snags deals by bribing governments But gives the middle finger to western Canadas energy sector
corruption times 4
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