Trudeau's longtime confidant and the clerk of the Privy Council will both testify in front of parliamentarians today. Watch it here at 10 AM ET
Two high-profile players will tell their own stories—one of them for the second time—at the House of Commons justice committee today. Gerald Butts, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s former principal secretary will testify at 10 a.m. ET. Later in the day at 2 p.m.
ET, Clerk of the Privy Council Michael Wernick will make a repeat appearance at the committee, alongside Department of Justice deputy minister Nathalie Drouin. Former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould testified at the same committee last week that both Butts and Wernick were among 10 government officials who pressured her, and her staff, to offer a deferred prosecution agreement to SNC-Lavalin.
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