09 April 2019

Kelly McParland: Here's what Liberals are asking you to believe about the SNC-Lavalin saga

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/kelly-mcparland-heres-what-the-liberals-are-asking-you-to-believe-about-the-snc-lavalin-saga

In order to believe Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s version of his dispute with his former attorney general, you have to accept that an astonishing series of missteps, misunderstandings and lost opportunities were entirely innocent.

You have to believe that when Jody Wilson-Raybould told Trudeau in September that she had made up her mind and would not interfere with the decision to proceed with a prosecution against SNC-Lavalin, he either didn’t grasp what she was saying, or didn’t accept how serious she was.

You have to trust that none of the numerous complaints she made over the ensuing weeks, warning that the pressure being exerted was inappropriate and had to stop, made it through to Trudeau ...

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