“Despite our diversity, she does stand up for us all'
Wilson-Raybould detailed a"consistent and sustained effort" by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and top political staff to"inappropriately" interfere in her role as Justice Minister and Attorney General to secure a deferred prosecution agreement and avoid a trial on corruption charges for the Quebec-based engineering company.
"I come from a long line of matriarchs and I am a truth teller in accordance with the laws and traditions of our Big House — this is who I am and who I will always be."Wilson-Raybould's identity as an Indigenous woman is clearly what drives her, said Gina Starblanket, a University of Calgary Indigenous politics professor.
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