Several Liberal MPs say they expect that the entire caucus will soon be debating the future of Jody Wilson-Raybould as a member of the Liberal team after she released secretly-recorded audio of a conversation she had with Canada's top civil servant.
Speaking with reporters on their way into question period, MPs expressed disappointment and condemnation of B.C. MP Wilson-Raybould over her decision to record and subsequently make public a December conversation she had with outgoing Privy Council Clerk Michael Wernick about SNC-Lavalin.
CTV News has previously reported that during the regularly-scheduled Wednesday caucus meeting, some Liberal MPs are expected to get up and call for Wilson-Raybould’s removal. The entire SNC-Lavalin affair centres on allegations from Wilson-Raybould that she faced sustained and improper pressure from senior government officials to interfere in a criminal case against Quebec engineering and construction firm SNC-Lavalin.
At the start of the recording Wilson-Raybould takes a deep breath before the conversation begins, then she can be heard issuing repeated and stern warnings that senior officials pressuring her over the SNC-Lavalin case would "look like nothing but political interference" if SNC-Lavalin were granted deferred prosecution. By the time of her recorded conversation with Wernick, Wilson-Raybould says she had already endured months of intense lobbying from such officials.
Other Liberal MPs told reporters that the fact that Wilson-Raybould recorded this conversation with a colleague makes it clear that there was a lack of trust on her end. Liberal minster and New Brunswick MP Ginette Petitpas Taylor said she is "looking forward to having a very honest conversation with all caucus colleagues this week, and then from there we’ll be able to come up with a decision."
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