Ivison: If Dion judges Trudeau to have lied about the conversation with Wilson-Raybould in the fall, or if someone in the PMO is deemed to have breached section nine of the act, then the government will have been found guilty of that most egregious of administrative sins — the bungled cover-up.
Impetuous and short-sighted as Trudeau is, this seems unlikely. Sources outside the Prime Minister’s Office say Wilson-Raybould was asked by PMO to take over the SNC file from the director of public prosecutions, Kathleen Roussel, on the grounds that a successful conviction of SNC could block it from bidding for federal contracts for 10 years and result in thousands of job losses in politically-sensitive Quebec.
When she refused to do his bidding, Trudeau gave Wilson-Raybould the hook, thus proving himself indistinguishable from all the grubby leaders that went before him.
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