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.
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SNC-Lavalin
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.
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
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.’
Are these the ’answers’ of a Prime Minister who’s done nothing wrong?
Andrew MacDougall: Sloppy misdirection, anonymous hit jobs. The response to the Lavalin affair shows a PMO that’s scrambling and caught.
Justin Trudeau’s credibility gap on SNC-Lavalin
A new poll shows that among Canadians who are following the controversy, nearly three quarters think Wilson-Raybould has the most credibility
What does it take to get a deferred prosecution agreement?
The legal escape route desired by SNC-Lavalin is an onerous process with some key requirements that prosecutors would weigh carefully
The PMO condemns anonymous Liberals (who anonymously support the PMO)
Politics Insider for Feb. 15: Ottawa continues to take sides in the Jody Wilson-Raybould saga, and Donald Trump might really get the wall he’s always wanted
What did the Liberals see in SNC-Lavalin? A company in need of a bailout.
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
SNC-Lavalin’s demise would not be the calamity its defenders claim
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