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Ottawa

For Gerald Butts, climate change isn’t like other policy

Seen as the strategist behind everything Trudeau did, Butts put cutting carbon emissions in its own category

Ottawa

SNC-Lavalin’s allies in its push to avoid prosecution

SNC-Lavalin’s arguments found an open audience, and its language in favour of remediation agreements was echoed widely

Opinion

Butts is gone, but #LavScam rolls on

Andrew MacDougall: The Liberals might be hoping Gerry Butts will be the firebreak between them and the SNC-Lavalin scandal. It’s wishful thinking.

Ottawa

Gerald Butts: Will throwing himself under the bus help or hurt Trudeau?

Politics Insider for February 19: Trudeau advisor Gerald Butts resigns in bid to save his boss, what Butts leaves behind, and the convoy has arrived

Canada

Brian Mulroney: From scandal-adjacent elitist to magnanimous statesman

The former PM has been working hard to improve his legacy. It just might be paying off, writes Anne Kingston

Politics

Kamala Harris’s father is slamming her for making a ’travesty’ of her Jamaican heritage

Allen Abel: Donald Harris’s rebuke over ’pot-smoking joy seeker’ stereotype is one thing the Democratic presidential contender is disinclined to talk about. Another is her time in Canada.

Ottawa

Gerald Butts: If thy right hand offend thee, pluck it out

Paul Wells: The Prime Minister will now have to find out if he can work without Butts. In a crisis, in an election year. The timing isn’t great.

Opinion

The hole that Gerry Butts leaves behind

Stephen Maher: The second act of l’affaire SNC-Lavalin could be devastating for Trudeau, and it’s not clear he’ll be better off without his trusted advisor

Ottawa

Gerald Butts resigns from PMO: Full statement

Former principal secretary Butts: ’My reputation is my responsibility and that is for me to defend. It is in the best interests of the office and its important work for me to step away.’