Blatchford: They’re thugs — the senior people in the office of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the clerk of the privy council and the nation’s top bureaucrat, the people in the office of Finance Minister Bill Morneau — or so close as to be indistinguishable from them.
I refer to their collective behaviour around the SNC-Lavalin imbroglio, in particular their relentless effort to strong-arm the deposed attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould into finding a way (a “solution,” they called it) to give the big Quebec-based engineering and construction giant what’s called a DPA, or deferred prosecution agreement.
As is now clear, both from the written submissions, including text messages and a surreptitiously recorded phone conversation with the aforementioned privy council clerk Michael Wernick, that JWR sent the parliamentary justice committee this week, some of those people threatened the former AG herself.
Some of them threatened her staff, notably Jessica Prince, also an accomplished lawyer.
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