Justin Trudeau

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

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.

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

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.’

Andrew MacDougall: Sloppy misdirection, anonymous hit jobs. The response to the Lavalin affair shows a PMO that’s scrambling and caught.  

An expert says cabinet confidentiality needn’t stop Trudeau from revealing details around Wilson-Raybould’s exit

A new poll shows that among Canadians who are following the controversy, nearly three quarters think Wilson-Raybould has the most credibility

Tom Parkin: If Jody Wilson-Raybould was standing in the way of a company that was considered by Ottawa to be too big to fail, she had to go

Jen Gerson: Its contracts wouldn’t disappear. Its valued employees would still be valued. And the work just might go to companies that haven’t been accused of corruption

Where are the battle lines being drawn inside the Liberal Party between the PM and the former cabinet minister? Twitter offers some clues.