{"id":3105,"date":"2019-02-15T13:30:13","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T13:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/?p=3105"},"modified":"2019-02-15T13:30:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T13:30:13","slug":"canadian-minister-resigns-from-trudeaus-cabinet-amid-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/2019\/02\/15\/canadian-minister-resigns-from-trudeaus-cabinet-amid-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian minister resigns from Trudeau’s cabinet amid scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Canada\u2019s former justice minister has resigned from Justin Trudeau\u2019s cabinet amid allegations that the prime minister\u2019s office pressured her to avoid prosecuting a major Canadian engineering firm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The veterans affairs minister, Jody Wilson-Raybould, released a letter announcing her resignation. She had been demoted from the post of justice minister last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wilson-Raybould, who did not give any reasons for her resignation, said in a letter to Trudeau she was quitting \u201cwith a heavy heart\u201d, adding: \u201cI am aware that many Canadians wish for me to speak on matters that have been in the media over the past week.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Globe and Mail reported that people in Trudeau\u2019s office tried to pressure Wilson-Raybould last year to help the construction company SNC-Lavalin Group Inc avoid a corruption trial when she was justice minister.Advertisement<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wilson-Raybould, who the Globe and Mail said had ignored the pressure, was demoted from the justice ministry last month. Trudeau said on Monday that he had full confidence in her and that her presence in his cabinet spoke for itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trudeau\u2019s office said the prime minister would stick to previously announced plans to speak to reporters later on Tuesday in Winnipeg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The resignation is the second blow for Trudeau in two days over the affair. Mario Dion, Canada\u2019s independent ethics commissioner, said on Monday he was investigating allegations of possible wrongdoing by senior officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a hint that the situation could grow more complicated for Trudeau, Wilson-Raybould has retained the former supreme court justice Thomas Cromwell to advise her on how much she can say about the SNC-Lavalin case. Cromwell declined an interview request.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is bigger trouble for the government than almost anything else that has come along so far,\u201d said Richard Johnston, a professor at the University of British Columbia and an expert in public opinion and elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Opinion polls show Trudeau\u2019s Liberals have a slender lead over the official opposition Conservatives ahead of an election set for this October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMr Trudeau\u2019s ethical lapses and his disastrous handling of this latest scandal have thrown his government into chaos,\u201d the Conservative leader, Andrew Scheer, said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2017, Trudeau apologized after the office of the ethics commissioner said he had broken conflict-of-interest laws by accepting a vacation on a Bahamas island owned by the Aga Khan<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wilson-Raybould, 47, appointed justice minister when Trudeau\u2019s Liberals came to power in November 2015, is one of the most prominent indigenous politicians in federal politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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