She bore the brunt of PMO pressure in the SNC-Lavalin scandal
OTTAWA — It is a truth universally acknowledged, at least in Ottawa, that a cabinet minister responsible for a tricky file must be in want of a loyal chief of staff.
A longtime Liberal volunteer from Victoria, B.C., she studied political science at McGill before attending law school in the UK. After being called to the bar in Canada she worked for five years on Bay Street — first at Thornton Grout Finnigan LLP, which specializes in bankruptcy and commercial law, then at Polley Faith LLP.
Prince followed Wilson-Raybould into the lower-profile veterans affairs ministry, something she was under no obligation to do, but not before learning from the deputy minister of justice that Trudeau expected a new minister to quickly be ready to discuss SNC-Lavalin. In focusing a line of questioning on Prince during the committee Wednesday, Raitt said she tried to establish that Prince spoke for Wilson-Raybould much the same way that Butts and Telford spoke for Trudeau. “It’s not enough to defend yourself by saying, ‘I was only talking to staff, it’s only staff.’ No, no, no — when you’re talking to Jessica Prince, you’re talking to Jody Wilson-Raybould, period. And people would know that,” she said.
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