House of Commons justice committee to discuss hearing more testimony on SNC-Lavalin affair
Conservative MP Lisa Raitt and NDP MP Murray Rankin speak before the appearance of Gerald Butts, not shown, former principal secretary to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, at the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights regarding the SNC Lavalin Affair, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday, March 6, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin TangLast Updated Tuesday, March 12, 2019 5:34PM EDT
The director of public prosecutions opted last fall not to negotiate a remediation agreement with the Quebec-based engineering giant, which would have put off a criminal trial in exchange for the company admitting wrongdoing, paying fines and allowing itself to be monitored for a period of time. Wilson-Raybould did not overrule that decision, and says Trudeau and his staff pressured her to change her mind.
Wilson-Raybould appeared Feb. 27 for about four hours, but after Trudeau's former principal secretary Gerald Butts testified a week later, opposition MPs say they have new questions for the ex-justice minister. "There were 11 people that the former attorney general mentioned that were involved in this entire affair and all of those people should be before the committee," she said. "Otherwise we're just leaving it up to speculation."
"If the Liberals are going to put forward arguments against hearing from Ms. Wilson-Raybould to be able to come to committee to be able to tell her full version of events," Cooper said, "it is imperative that they do so in public, in front of the cameras where there is a transcript and a recorded vote so that Canadians can see for themselves just what the Liberals are trying to do.
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