Gerald Butts

Justin Trudeau’s longtime confidant told MPs his side of the SNC-Lavalin scandal. Read his full prepared remarks here—including additions and omissions he made on delivery

Trudeau’s longtime confidant and the clerk of the Privy Council will both testify in front of parliamentarians today. Watch it here.

Anne Kingston: Wednesday’s hearing will require that Trudeau’s former principal secretary find a high road heretofore untravelled by the government in its response to the SNC-Lavalin crisis

Politics Insider for March 1: Liberals do their best damage control (and it goes poorly), Canada builds a new space arm (of course!), and Trudeau shuffles the deck chairs

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

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.’

Paul Wells: What’s alleged in today’s Globe story is not just plausible, it points to bigger PMO problems. And it’s the sort of thing that can destroy governments.

The PM’s advisor and the former advisor to Barack Obama met at the Liberal convention to talk about their lives, jobs and the value of attack ads

Stephen Maher: The PM can’t afford more sloppy mistakes and he may not be getting the stern warnings he needs to rein in his worst impulses