I want to talk more about Anne McLellan’s report, which the Prime Minister’s Office released last week on the same day Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion released his own report into the SNC-Lavalin affair.
McLellan was a key minister in the governments of Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin, in several portfolios including as minister of justice and attorney general under Chrétien, and has racked up impressive titles since leaving politics. But she’s not widely viewed as a rebel or a provider of surprising answers to leading questions.
McLellan concludes that the two roles shouldn’t be split. She considers all possible alternatives to a single cabinet-level minister responsible for both the roles of Minister of Justice and Attorney General, and decides each would have serious problems. “There is no system for managing prosecutorial decisions that absolutely protects against the possibility of partisan interference,” she writes.
So there’s no need for structural change, McLellan concludes. There are, however, “practical steps that should be taken to reinforce prosecutorial independence.” The way other ministers, political staff, bureaucrats and the PMO feel free to give advice to an AG is way too ad hoc for McLellan’s taste. So she calls for “a protocol” to regulate all these interactions.
The piling on was a deliberate action they knew was illegal. It wasn’t a procedural problem. But that is how Trudeau will get off the hook in the media.
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