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Feb 16 In 2020, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau cancelled his trip to Barbados to deal with rail disruptions caused by protests against a multi-billion-dollar pipeline project that crosses First Nations territory in northern B.C. Feb 18 In 2019, Gerald Butts, Justin Trudeau’s principal secretary and long-time friend, resigned amid allegations that the Prime Minister’s Office interfered to prevent criminal prosecution of SNC-Lavalin. Butts released a statement in which he categorically denied the accusation that he or anyone else in the PMO improperly pressured former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould to help the Montreal engineering giant avoid prosecution on corruption and bribery charges related to contracts in Libya. While he said the accusation simply wasn’t true, it was distracting from the vital work Trudeau was doing. Feb 19 In 1889, Saskatchewan Metis…

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