There are numerous Liberal partisans online referring to Jody Wilson-Raybould as a traitor.
Nothing could be further from the truth. As ancient Roman senator Junius stated before his death in 359 AD: “The subject who is truly loyal to the chief magistrate will neither advise nor submit to arbitrary measures.”
JWR testified that she was contacted by 11 officials, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the PMO, the Privy Council Office and Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s office on the SNC issue from September to December 2018, when she “experienced a consistent and sustained effort by many people within the government to seek to politically interfere in the exercise of prosecutorial discretion in my role as the attorney general of Canada in an inappropriate effort to secure a Deferred Prosecution...
“In response, I explained to him the law and what I have the ability to do and not do under the Director of Public Prosecutions Act . . . . I told him that I had done my due diligence and made up my mind on SNC and that I was not going to interfere with the decision of the DPP .” On Jan. 7, JWR received a call from Trudeau telling her she was being shuffled out of her role as minister of justice and attorney general. “I stated I believed the reason was because of the SNC matter. They denied this to be the case,” she said.
JWR closed her statement by saying that her understanding of the rule of law has been shaped not just by her family and her four years as a Crown prosecutor in Vancouver’s notorious Downtown Eastside, but that “the history of Crown-Indigenous relations in this country includes a history of the rule of law not being respected . . . and I have seen the negative impacts for freedom, equality and a just society this can have first-hand.
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