‘Justin Trudeau simply cannot continue to govern this great nation now that Canadians know what he has done’
Immediately after the conclusion of former justice minister and attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould’s testimony on the SNC-Lavalin scandal before the House of Commons justice committee Wednesday, Conservative Party leader Andrew Scheer released this statement:
“The testimony Canadians have just heard from the former Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould tells the story of a Prime Minister who has lost the moral authority to govern. A Prime Minister who allows his partisan political motivations to overrule his duty to uphold the rule of law. A Prime Minister who doesn’t know where the Liberal Party ends and where the Government of Canada begins.
“Before Ms. Wilson-Raybould’s testimony, Canadians knew Justin Trudeau had engineered an unwanted, sustained, and co-ordinated attempt to get Ms. Wilson-Raybould to change her mind and stop the criminal trial of SNC-Lavalin. Today, thanks to Ms. Wilson-Raybould’s testimony, we now know just how intense those efforts were: ten meetings and ten phone calls involving eleven senior government officials relentlessly targeting Ms.
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