Politics Insider for March 6: Trudeau to show 'contrition' over SNC-Lavalin affair, Butts gets his turn at the mic and the Liberals pitch their national pharmacare plan
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If the show of contrition comes, it would follow Trudeau’s initial claims that the Globe and Mail‘s political interference story was first, “false” and then second, a misunderstanding. Butts, a longtime advisor to Trudeau, is scheduled to testify starting at 10 a.m. ET. Check out Macleans.ca for a livestream of his testimony.
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