Justin Trudeau

After explosive testimony from the PM’s former justice minister and attorney general, the Tory leader said Trudeau ’lost the moral authority to govern’

Jody Wilson-Raybould’s opening statement at a parliamentary committee pointed to four conversations in which senior Liberals worried about electoral consequences

Andrew MacDougall: The former AG hasn’t been freed to give her whole truth, but we will get answers about what went wrong and how bad it’ll be for the PM

Andrew MacDougall: If the former AG adds credible colour to the story being told by anonymous sources this week, it will be a devastating day for Trudeau

Anne Kingston: Powerful men repeatedly refused to accept Wilson-Raybould’s authority. This isn’t a ’he said, she said.’ It’s a ’he, he, he-said.’

David Moscrop: The Privy Council clerk’s soliloquy—though not objectively wrong—sowed confusion and suspicion of partisanship. Isn’t that what he’s trying to stop?

Stephen Maher: Canada’s top bureaucrat gives the Liberals a new line: Yes Wilson-Raybould was pressured, but no one was acting to pursue corrupt ends

Andrew MacDougall: Every time Justin Trudeau has tried to free himself with a new explanation, Jody Wilson-Raybould has been there to hem him back in

The job of principal secretary is a flexible one in Canadian politics, and the PM’s old friend Gerry Butts played it in an unusually visible and vocal way

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