‘I did not initiate the crisis now facing the party or the Prime Minister. Nor did Jody Wilson-Raybould’
On Tuesday evening, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced he had removed Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott from the Liberal Party caucus. Wilson-Raybould resigned from cabinet in the wake of allegations that as attorney general she had been subject to inappropriate pressure to intervene in the criminal prosecution of Montreal-based engineering firm SNC-Lavalin.
These attacks were based on inaccuracies and falsehoods. I did not initiate the crisis now facing the party or the Prime Minister. Nor did Jody Wilson-Raybould. This isn’t about a lack of loyalty. On the contrary, I recommended that the government acknowledge what happened in order to move forward. This was an expression of loyalty, not disloyalty — in the same way that Jody Wilson-Raybould attempted to protect the Prime Minister from the obvious short-term and long-term consequences of attempts to interfere with prosecutorial independence — but to no avail.
Throughout these events, I have continued to support Liberal policies and the commitments we made. As a member of Cabinet, I would have been compelled to support in Question Period and in the media the government’s response to the SNC-Lavalin case and speak in support of that response. I could not do this and as a result, I was compelled to resign.
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