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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.

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BY BEATRICE PAEZ
March 6, 2019

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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.

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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.

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