Moreover, he says Wilson-Raybould never mentioned concerns about improper pressure to the prime minister or to him, even though he was her primary point of contact in the Prime Minister’s Office. Butts subsequently advised Trudeau that he couldn’t simply let Wilson-Raybould stay at Justice. “I knew … that trust had broken down between our office and the minister,” Butts says. In another text a few days later, Wilson-Raybould raises two other issues they discussed over dinner, again with no mention of SNC-Lavalin. “It did not seem to me then, and does not now, that what we did was anything other than what those 9,000 people would have every right to expect of their prime minister.”

Source: National Post March 06, 2019 15:32 UTC