NDP MP Murray Rankin reminded Butts that Wilson-Raybould told senior staffers in the PMO that she didn’t want any more engagements on the SNC-Lavalin. “This is the longest I’ve gone in 30 years not talking to the prime minister,” Butts said. “We did what those 9,000 people would expect of their prime minister,” said Butts, on the potential job losses if SNC-Lavalin were prosecuted. “Jess, there is no solution here that doesn’t involve some interference,” Butts told her, according to text message transcripts from Wilson-Raybould. According to the same transcript, Telford told Prince that “we don’t want to debate legalities anymore.”What Gerald Butts said: “I have a very different recollection of that meeting,” Butts said.

Source: National Post March 06, 2019 14:03 UTC