SNC-Lavalin

Justin Trudeau hunkered down in the Prime Minister's Office on Wednesday, March 6, 2019, as he awaited what Liberals hope will be pivotal testimony on Wednesday, March 6, 2019, from his former principal secretary.

Liberals are hoping they'll get some ammunition today, March 6, 2019, to fight back against accusations of political interference in the justice system when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's former principal secretary tells his side of the SNC-Lavalin saga.

A prominent chief is urging SNC-Lavalin lawyer Frank Iacobucci to resign his position as special envoy to First Nations for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the Trans Mountain expansion project. Iacoubucci's name popped up a couple of times in bombshell testimony on Feb. 27 by former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould.

A scheduled visit by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to Regina has been cancelled.

Treasury Board President Jane Philpott, one of the stars of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's cabinet, has resigned as a minister over the SNC-Lavalin scandal

Federal Justice Minister David Lametti is publicly musing about whether Canada should consider separating the offices of its attorney general and its minister of justice in the wake of the SNC-Lavalin controversy, an idea that has backing from others who know the job intimately.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will try to shift the focus from the SNC-Lavalin affair to his preferred campaign battleground — climate change — with the release this week of the Liberal party's first election-year ads.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to shuffle the federal cabinet on Friday, March 01, 2019, as he looks to fill the void left by the resignation of Jody Wilson-Raybould, a senior government source confirmed on Thursday, February 28, 2019, evening.

Several Indigenous leaders say former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould was deeply brave in her explosive testimony on the SNC-Lavalin affair, but they're steering clear of criticizing the Trudeau government.

A day after bombshell claims by Canada's former attorney general that she was pressured to intervene in a criminal case against SNC-Lavalin, the Quebec premier expressed concern about potential job losses and the province's political class hesitated to take sides.

Speaking to reporters in Toronto Thursday, Finance Minister Bill Morneau responded a day after former justice minister and attorney general, Jody Wilson-Raybould, gave a damning testimony in front of the House of Commons justice committee, which implicated Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Morneau, and their respective staff,

Jody Wilson-Raybould, Canada’s former justice minister and attorney general, broke her silence on the SNC-Lavalin scandal in extraordinary fashion Wednesday, pointing her finger at the country’s prime minister, his political and bureaucratic operatives, and the finance minister for applying “inappropriate” pressure on her to help the Quebec engineering giant avoid a criminal trial.

From studies on northern transportation systems, to helping protect whales from toxins, to window washing — SNC-Lavalin has extensive federal ties amounting to tens of millions of dollars in contracts, big and small.

Jody Wilson-Raybould finally gets the chance today to "speak her truth" about the SNC-Lavalin affair, breaking a three-week silence that has fuelled a controversy based, so far, strictly on anonymous allegations of political interference in the justice system.

Jody Wilson-Raybould will finally give her side of the SNC-Lavalin story on Wednesday, February 27, 2019, breaking almost three weeks of silence that has fuelled the anonymously sourced controversy and shaken the Trudeau government to its core.