For those who claim the SNC-Lavalin affair is much ado about nothing, this is certainly an interesting development:
OTTAWA—Gerald Butts, Justin Trudeau's principal secretary and long-time friend, has resigned amid allegations that the Prime Minister's Office interfered to prevent a criminal prosecution of SNC-Lavalin.Yeah, I forgot. It is always the innocent who resign.
In a statement, Butts unequivocally denies the accusation that he or anyone else in the office improperly pressured former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould to help the Montreal engineering giant avoid a criminal case on corruption and bribery charges related to government contracts in Libya.
I did nothing wrong whatsoever.
ReplyDeleteTherefore I quit. Try subpoenaing me -
I'm leaving town.
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Gerald Butts
BM
The resignation has all the earmarks of an innocent man, BM.
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ReplyDeleteI really am too dispirited by the decay in governance in Canada and much of the western world today to have any enthusiasm for this tawdry business, Lorne. Our failure to tame neoliberalism has led to democratic decay and, ultimately, the rise of authoritarianism. Might Canada succumb to this spreading contagion? Given the quality of our governance that does seem possible.
When the government that promised so much fails so abysmally, Mound, it is hard not to lose heart.
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