The Liberals escalated their criticism Sunday of Jody Wilson-Raybould's decision to secretly record a phone call with the country's top bureaucrat, with a prominent cabinet minister declaring her unease with the former attorney general remaining in caucus.
Labour Minister Patty Hajdu told the CBC she believed it was "unethical" for Wilson-Raybould to secretly record her Dec. 19 conversation with Privy Council Clerk Michael Wernick. A 17-minute audio clip of the call was released on Friday by the House of Commons justice committee, along with a 43-page brief from Wilson-Raybould that includes emails and text messages.
Wernick told her Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was "quite determined" on the matter and would likely "find a way to get it done one way or another." The former attorney general testified earlier this month that she believes she was moved out of the justice portfolio to Veterans Affairs in a mid-January cabinet shuffle as punishment for refusing to succumb to relentless pressure last fall from Trudeau, his senior staff, Wernick and others to intervene in the SNC-Lavalin case. She resigned from cabinet a month later.
"I, personally, don't feel comfortable, personally, with a colleague who may be recording me without my knowledge," she said. He told the justice committee in March he believes nobody from the Prime Minister's Office did anything wrong and that Wilson-Raybould never complained about facing undue pressure.The documents he submitted to committee must be translated into French and their release approved by panel members before public release.
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