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Anthony Housefather, House of Commons, justice committee, Jody Wilson-Raybould

Sources say Trudeau rejected Wilson-Raybould's conservative pick for high court

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.

SNC-Lavalin announced confidential deal with feds, four days after Trudeau's first throne speech in 2015

Four days after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberals opened their first session of Parliament with a throne speech in 2015, the federal government entered into a new confidential deal with SNC-Lavalin. To this day, the contents of that deal remain a secret, but what's clear is that it allows the Quebec construction and engineering giant to continue scoring lucrative federal contracts.