Jane Philpott departed a meeting of her fellow Ontario Liberal MPs after just a few minutes Tuesday, leaving them to debate the question of whether she should remain a member of caucus.
The largest provincial group of Liberals gathered on Parliament Hill one day before a national meeting in which Liberal legislators could vote to expel both the former Indigenous services minister and ex-attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould.
The two quit Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's cabinet over his handling of the SNC-Lavalin affair, in which Wilson-Raybould says she was relentlessly pressured by Trudeau and others to avert a criminal prosecution of the Montreal engineering firm. McKay said he was unmoved by the letter's contents. Toronto Liberal Judy Sgro agreed the letter is "too little, too late" and said she sees little difference between Wilson-Raybould and Philpott.
Infrastructure Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne criticized Wilson-Raybould's ethics, saying he had never recorded any conversations he had while working as a lawyer.
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