Prime Minister Justin Trudeau takes questions from reporters about his meeting with Jane Philpott, where he expressed his wishes to move Jody Wilson-Raybould to the Ministry of Indigenous Services. Read the latest here:
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In an interview with Maclean's magazine that landed like a bombshell Thursday on Parliament Hill, the ex-minister says she had concerns before the controversy became public in January, but that she has been prevented from discussing them, alleging efforts by the Prime Minister's Office to "shut down the story."
"My sense is that Canadians would like to know the whole story," Philpott told Maclean's in her first extended interview since her resignation. Philpott's new public statements are already fanning the flames of a scandal the government is desperate to douse, and which the Opposition Conservatives are doing their best to keep alive. They've forced the House of Commons to sit all night, voting line by line on the Liberal government's spending plans.
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