Trudeau and Wilson-Raybould: The scandal that could unseat Canada's PM
At the time that Wilson-Raybould says she was being pressured to cut a deal, Quebec was also in the middle of a heated provincial election that eventually led to the ousting of Quebec Liberal premier Philippe Couillard.
Wilson-Raybould says the federal Liberal Party kept raising the Quebec election as one of the reasons why she should consider cutting a deal with SNC-Lavalin.Trudeau has denied wrongdoing and says any lobbying by him or his inner circle for engineering giant SNC-Lavalin was done to protect jobs. Speaking to reporters on Thursday morning, Mr Trudeau said he disagreed with her"characterisation" of events and maintained his staff followed the rules.Trudeau's longtime friend and principal secretary Gerald Butts has already resigned.Canada's ethics commissioner is investigating Wilson-Raybould's accusations to see if any conflict-of-interest rules were broken.
That seems unlikely, but what is likely - at least according to columnist Chantal Hebert and other political pundits - is that"the Liberals will likely go in the fall election campaign with the SNC-Lavalin albatross still hanging around their party's neck".
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