For many, Wilson-Raybould’s release of a secretly-recorded phone conversation regarding SNC-Lavalin was proof that the ‘treasonous’ ex-minister can’t be trusted
OTTAWA — Liberal backbenchers and cabinet ministers alike condemned former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould on Monday for surreptitiously recording a phone conversation with the country’s top public servant, Michael Wernick.
“The moment you stop trusting the government, I mean obviously you shouldn’t be in the government or you shouldn’t be in the caucus that supports the government,” said Montreal MP Alexandra Mendes. Tourism Minister Melanie Joly said if Wilson-Raybould simply wanted a record of what was said, she should have told Wernick she was taping the call for that purpose.“In my listening to it, I felt she had to be reading from a script at times to try and draw out, to make the clerk and the prime minister and cabinet colleagues and us that sit in caucus with her look bad,” said Easter. “Of course I’m angry.
Transport Minister Marc Garneau said it was “very inappropriate” to record the conversation without telling Wernick. “It is not an honourable thing to do.”
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