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Butts takes ‘full responsibility’ for ‘breakdown’ in trust between Trudeau, Wilson-Raybould, but denies there was improper pressure

Gerald Butts repeatedly maintained that efforts to persuade then-justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould to consider another opinion were about saving the 9,000 jobs the government says are on the line if SNC-Lavalin is slapped with a conviction. 

In outlining his defence, Gerald Butts, pictured March 6, 2019, offered a rare glimpse into the political considerations at play behind cabinet shuffles, saying they tried, for about two weeks, to dissuade Scott Brison, the former Treasury Board president, from resigning. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
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