Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks about a watchdog’s report that he breached ethics rules by trying to influence a corporate legal case, at the Niagara-on-the Lake Community Centre in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada, on August 14 2019. Picture: REUTERS/ANDREJ IVANOV
“The authority of the prime minister and his office was used to circumvent, undermine and ultimately attempt to discredit” the attorney general’s authority, Dion said. “My job as a prime minister is to stand up for Canadians and defend their interests and yes it is essential we do that in a way that defends our institutions, that upholds prosecutorial independence,” Trudeau said. “But we need to be able to talk about the impacts on Canadians right across the country of decisions being made.”
The ethics watchdog, however, found the pressure on Wilson-Raybould “troubling,” and said the evidence showed on at least four separate occasions that political interests to back SNC were put before the attorney general, directly or indirectly. The report doesn’t outline any sanctions related to the decision. “It is up to the prime minister to implement any further action,” it said.
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