Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's former principal secretary will tell his side of the SNC-Lavalin saga on Wednesday.
The House of Commons justice committee is set to hear from Gerald Butts at 10 a.m. Wednesday, a week after former justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould tore into the Trudeau government with her accusations of repeated, sustained pressure by the Prime Minister's Office and Privy Council clerk Michael Wernick not to prosecute the Quebec engineering giant.
Butts, who has been with Trudeau since the start of his Liberal leadership run and was a critical part of the campaign and the Trudeau government, resigned Feb. 18, saying he had done nothing wrong but felt the need to leave because he had become a distraction.
She resigned from cabinet several days later, and then was finally able to tell her side of the story to the Commons justice committee last week.
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