{"id":63486,"date":"2019-02-27T19:00:15","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T00:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?post_type=cu_story&p=63486"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:37:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:37:32","slug":"macdonald-wilson-raybould-affair","status":"publish","type":"cu_story","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/story\/macdonald-wilson-raybould-affair\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Sir John A. Macdonald to blame for the Wilson-Raybould affair?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In her bombshell testimony before a House of Commons committee, Jody Wilson-Raybould, Canada\u2019s former minister of justice and attorney general, described repeated attempts at \u201cpolitical interference\u201d by top government officials.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

She told of \u201cveiled threats\u201d about her job and dark warnings about being headed for \u201ca collision\u201d with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over the issue of helping Qu\u00e9bec engineering firm SNC-Lavalin avoid a bribery trial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less dramatically \u2014 but with the potential to spark a major restructuring of her former ministry \u2014 Wilson-Raybould stated that she has long believed Canada should re-examine the conjoined federal department headed by the minister of justice and attorney general and consider \u201cwhether or not those two roles should be bifurcated.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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JWR says she believes the roles of Minister of Justice and Attorney General be split.
After this incident, hard to disagree. #JUST<\/a> #cdnpoli<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Dale Smith (@journo_dale) February 27, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n