March 18 In 2019, the country’s top bureaucrat announced he would retire as clerk of the Privy Council. Michael Wernick said in a statement there was no path for a “relationship of mutual trust’’ if the Conservatives or N-D-P form the next government. Former justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould accused Wernick of pressuring her to help Quebec-based engineering giant S-N-C-Lavalin avoid a criminal prosecution. March 19 In 2019, the Liberal-dominated justice committee pulled the plug on its probe of the SNC-Lavalin affair, prompting fresh howls of outrage from the Conservatives and NDP. Conservative and New Democrat MPs unsuccessfully pressed the House of Commons justice committee to recall former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould so she could shed more light on the simmering controversy. The Liberal members tabled a motion calling for the…
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