Jody Wilson-Raybould

Attorney General David Lametti says he will resist any attempt to pressure him on the SNC-Lavalin criminal prosecution.

Supporters of Jody Wilson-Raybould in her Vancouver Granville riding say they're disappointed she was ejected from the Liberal caucus but they would back her in the federal election if she ran as an Independent.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau got a first-hand glimpse of the fallout from the SNC-Lavalin affair when he addressed young women staging a mock Parliament in the House of Commons on Wednesday, April 3, 2019: about four dozen of them turned their backs on him while he tried to explain why he had booted Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott out of the Liberal caucus the day before.

Text messages between Jody Wilson-Raybould and one of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's top advisers suggest she initially tried to prevent her move out of the prestigious Justice portfolio by arguing it would send the wrong message to Indigenous Peoples.

"I believed we were going to uphold the highest standards that support the public interest, and not simply make choices to create partisan advantage. As part of committing to this transformative and progressive path, we were also committing to a government and caucus that represented all Canadians"

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has booted former attorney general and justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould and former Treasury Board president Jane Philpott from the Liberal Party of Canada caucus.

Liberal backbenchers and cabinet ministers alike condemned former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould on Monday, April 1, 2019, for surreptitiously recording a phone conversation with the country's top public servant, Michael Wernick.

Jody Wilson-Raybould approvingly points to Brian Mulroney as a prime minister who knew better than to politically interfere with the judgment of his attorney general when it comes to criminal prosecutions.

The Liberals escalated their criticism on Sunday, March 31, 2019, of Jody Wilson-Raybould's decision to secretly record a phone call with the country's top bureaucrat, with a prominent cabinet minister declaring her unease with the former attorney general remaining in caucus.

Jody Wilson-Raybould, the former attorney general, warned Canada's top civil servant against political interference in a 17-minute phone call last December, less than a month before she was demoted in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's cabinet.

The Conservatives are asking for an investigation into leaks of confidential information about Jody Wilson-Raybould's controversial choice for chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada — and the former justice minister is echoing their call for an inquiry.

Leaked reports about a dispute between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould over a Supreme Court appointment drew condemnation from bar associations and MPs of all parties on Tuesday, March 26, 2019, as the controversy surrounding the SNC-Lavalin affair raged on.

Justin Trudeau will be focusing on the training benefits in the recently released budget as he meets with labour leaders in Winnipeg today, March 26, 2019.

Only once before in Canadian history — in 1906, when Sir Wilfrid Laurier appointed his justice minister to the top judicial job — has a prime minister chosen a chief justice who was not already sitting on the Supreme Court. Wilson-Raybould’s pick puzzled Trudeau but he became disturbed after doing some research into her choice’s views on the charter, sources said.

The Liberal-dominated justice committee has pulled the plug on its probe of the SNC-Lavalin affair, prompting fresh howls of outrage from the Conservatives and NDP.