A rite of passage for any scandal, minor or major, is a comparison to Watergate. The website Politico collected 46 examples of scandals described as worse than Watergate, including the Iran-Contra scandal during Ronald Reagan’s presidency, Bill Clinton’s Whitewater scandal, George W. Bush’s warrantless wiretapping controversy and Barack Obama’s fast and furious scandal. Wilson-Raybould first worried about being the victim of her own Saturday Night Massacre on a Wednesday in December. If Wilson-Raybould’s dramatic testimony was a spectacle rarely seen in Canadian politics, the Saturday Night Massacre was like nothing the United States had ever seen. For Wilson-Raybould, her premonition about a Saturday Night Massacre came nearly two months before the public was even aware there was a scandal.

Source: National Post March 05, 2019 11:00 UTC