March 4 In 1870, a Metis firing squad executed Ontario adventurer Thomas Scott for attempting to overthrow Louis Riel’s government at Manitoba’s Red River Colony. The sentence ultimately led to Riel’s execution 15 years later. In 2019, Treasury Board President Jane Philpott resigned from the federal cabinet over the fallout from the SNC-Lavalin affair, telling Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in an open letter she had “lost confidence in how the government” had dealt with the issue. Philpott’s resignation came just less than a month after former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould, and Philpott’s good friend, resigned from cabinet amid allegations that the Prime Minister’s Office had improperly pressured her to stop a criminal prosecution of Montreal engineering giant SNC-Lavalin. March 6 In 2019, Justin Trudeau’s former principal secretary testified the SNC-Lavalin…
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