Similarly, when NDP MP Charlie Angus raised the allegation that Michael Wernick, the clerk of the Privy Council, threatened Wilson-Raybould, Butts said the accusation was “inconsistent with his character”. (Wernick testified later in the day and denied he threatened the former attorney general. “The attorney general is not a law unto herself and has never been historically. “When you boil this all down, the only thing we ever asked the attorney general to do was to get a second opinion. Yet, thanks to Butts’ testimony, the near certainty in the minds of many Canadians that a parcel of rogues in the PMO were guilty of improper interference in the administration of justice may have been reduced to a mere nagging suspicion.

Source: National Post March 06, 2019 23:37 UTC