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RSS FeedsJody Wilson-Raybould says she still can´t talk about `inaccurate accounts´ of SNC-Lavalin affair
(The Star Religion)

 
 

24 august 2019 01:40:05

 
Jody Wilson-Raybould says she still can´t talk about `inaccurate accounts´ of SNC-Lavalin affair
(The Star Religion)
 


OTTAWA—Independent MP Jody Wilson-Raybould says she is still unfairly blocked by principles of confidentiality from responding to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s comments about the SNC-Lavalin affair. In a statement to the Star’s Susan Delacourt this week, the former Liberal cabinet minister said “it is deeply unfortunate” she can’t answer questions about conversations she had with the prime minister earlier this year.In his new book about the Liberal government, “Promise and Peril,” CBC journalist Aaron Wherry revealed Trudeau and Wilson-Raybould discussed issuing a statement of truce last winter, when the controversy over alleged political interference in the criminal trial of the Montreal construction giant first rocked the Liberal government and dominated the news for several weeks. On Thursday night, Wilson-Raybould sent the Star a statement she said she shared with Wherry—she was also interviewed for his book—in which she suggests Trudeau mischaracterized their interactions during the SNC-Lavalin affair. “It is deeply unfortunate — indeed frustrating — that I am prevented from telling what was actually said in various conversations that are subject to strict confidentiality,” Wilson-Raybould wrote.“This is especially so since it appears, based on your questions to me regarding these conversations, that others do not feel equally constrained and that you are receiving, as a result, false self-serving/one-sided and inaccurate accounts of relevant events. This is not fair.” Trudeau’s office declined to respond to Wilson-Raybould’s statement on Friday. In February, Trudeau waived cabinet confidence in relation to the SNC-Lavalin affair for Wilson-Raybould and others “who directly participated in discussions with her” about it while she was the attorney general. Wilson-Raybould was shuffled from her portfolio in January, and the waiver specifi ...


 
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