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RSS FeedsChantal Hébert: Trudeau vulnerable in fall election amid growing damage from SNC-Lavalin file
(The Star Food)

 
 

18 february 2019 23:38:14

 
Chantal Hébert: Trudeau vulnerable in fall election amid growing damage from SNC-Lavalin file
(The Star Food)
 


By resigning his position as principal secretary to Justin Trudeau as he faces allegations of political interference in the judicial file of the engineering firm SNC-Lavalin, his long time friend and alter ego Gerald Butts may hope to deflect the potentially lethal friendly fire that is headed straight for the prime minister.He was the official who had the most dealings with former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould over her time in the cabinet. As he noted in his resignation statement, he recruited her to federal politics.Those dealings included discussions of the SNC-Lavalin file. Sources say Butts was already in Wilson-Raybould’s crosshairs when she talked with Trudeau hours before she resigned from the cabinet last week.But based on his categorical assertion that he never crossed into interference territory in his conversations with Wilson-Raybould, Butts may end up only having taken himself out of the direct line of fire. The sight of PMO blood in the water is unlikely to distract the opposition parties from the main prey that is the prime minister himself. Stephen Harper who abruptly lost chief of staff Nigel Wright over the Senate spending scandal can testify to that.On that basis, it is hard to see how the departure of an adviser the prime minister has relied on to have his back since the early days of his leadership campaign would not make him even more vulnerable.Read more:Butts resigns amid SNC-Lavalin scandalMeet the main players of the SNC-Lavalin affairThose who believe Trudeau sanctioned a plan to try to force Wilson-Raybould to spare SNC-Lavalin a criminal trial that could have negative consequences for its commercial future by offering it a remediation agreement will find validation in his principal secretary’s resignation.And while no one is irreplaceable losing a central player such as Butts on the eve of a re-election campaign stands to compound the damage to the Liberals.For even before it became a political hurricane the timi ...


 
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