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August 14th 2019
Ethics Commissioner says Trudeau inappropriately sought to convince Wilson-Raybould to avoid prosecuting SNC-Lavalin
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Perhaps the most depressing spectacle of the entire Trudeau SNC-Lavalin implosion is that neither the prime minister nor the people around him seem to have any idea of how badly their tunnel vision distorted their judgment in the conduct of this file.
Sandy Garossino
Analysis, Business, Politics
| March 8th 2019
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Four days after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberals opened their first session of Parliament with a throne speech in 2015, the federal government entered into a new confidential deal with SNC-Lavalin. To this day, the contents of that deal remain a secret, but what's clear is that it allows the Quebec construction and engineering giant to continue scoring lucrative federal contracts.
Carl Meyer
News, Politics
| March 11th 2019
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The pair made separate but synchronized announcements in their ridings — Wilson-Raybould at a small community centre in Vancouver and Philpott at a farm market outside Toronto. Both urged the need for Canadian politics to have people beholden to no central authority.
Carl Meyer, Morgan Sharp
News, Politics
| May 27th 2019
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says neither he nor his office ever "directed" Jody Wilson-Raybould to intervene in the prosecution of troubled SNC-Lavalin Group, following a report that said his office had pressured her to do so.
Carl Meyer
News, Politics
| February 7th 2019
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is making the case that he and his former justice minister, Jody Wilson-Raybould, were on the same page last fall as federal prosecutors pursued corruption charges against Quebec engineering giant, SNC-Lavalin. Trudeau's comments came as he was peppered with questions about the unfolding scandal at an event in Vancouver on Monday.
Carl Meyer
News, Politics
| February 11th 2019
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On Dec. 5, 2018, Jody Wilson-Raybould met for dinner with Gerald Butts at a luxurious downtown Ottawa hotel. Roughly three months later, both are out of their former jobs, and the highly-disputed nature of that dinner sits at the centre of the largest political scandal the Trudeau government has faced.
Carl Meyer, Mike De Souza
News, Politics
| March 6th 2019
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Amid the din of the details, a critical fact has been buried: the SNC-Lavalin affair is business as usual in Canada. Pro-business policies have long been the norm. It just happens to be that this time, Canadians get to see behind the curtain.
Nora Loreto
Opinion
| March 11th 2019
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Jody Wilson-Raybould, the former attorney general, warned Canada's top civil servant against political interference in a 17-minute phone call last December, less than a month before she was demoted in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's cabinet.
Morgan Sharp, Mike De Souza
News, Politics
| March 29th 2019
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