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Methinks it is a long time until October when the fat lady sings again about who won and lost N'esy Pas?
https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/04/wilson-raybould-warned-that-moving-her.html
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Pam Sutton
Bye liberals, you’re done in October.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Pam Sutton: "Bye liberals, you’re done in October."
How can you be so certain?
Methinks it is a long time until October when the fat lady sings again about who won and lost N'esy Pas?
Don Cameron
Trudeau's explanation that "the shuffle would not be happening if Scott Brison hadn't resigned", does nothing to explain why JWR was moved out of Justice.
As an explanation it leaves much to be desired. No wonder she didn't believe him.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Don Cameron: "No wonder she didn't believe him."
Methinks it is a small wonder why nobody believes politicians not even other politicians N'esy Pas?
Bryan Pollock
We all know the real reason she was moved. Enough of the propaganda and lies
Good Luck with that demand
Greg Lang
All the liberal bobble heads can talk about is the recording. Yup...keep it up...deflect as much as you can.
David R. Amos
John Kimble
Bravo cbc, another excellent smoke screen. All that funding going to good use.
Canadians do not believe Justin or anything else associated with these liberals.
David R. Amos
Jim Smith
Jodi was moved for one reason. Because she would not interfere with the SNC Lavin file. Anyone that watched the so called justice committee antics by the liberals can see that. Additionally Jodi's COS was briefed that the new AG would be putting the SNC lavin file as his top priority.
David R. Amos
Hugh MacDonald
Hard to name one thing that Trudeau has done that wasn't a mistake.
Rick Rheubottom
David R. Amos
Reply to @Rick Rheubottom: Good Point However methinks it wasn't so much that Trudeau won as Harper and Mulcair lost N'esy Pas?
Don Cameron
Agitated "despite repeated assurances from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his former top adviser"??
Perhaps she just didn't believe him. Many don't.
David R. Amos
Karin Bougie
New CBC poll tracker poll out, April 2
Cons - 36.2%
NDP - 16.3%
Green - 7.8%
BQ - 4.4%
PPC - 2.4%
Other - 1.2%
That's 68.3% of Canadians that won't vote for Trudeau.
David R. Amos
Darin Fortin
Canadians have grown tired of socks and hair boy.
David R. Amos
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New documents tabled with the Commons justice committee shed more light on Jody Wilson-Raybould's shuffle from justice to Veterans Affairs. (Chris Wattie/Reuters Peter Foley/EFE/EPA/Reuters, Patrick Doyle/Reuters)
Jody Wilson-Raybould grew increasingly agitated about being moved from the justice portfolio — and public perceptions of her shuffle — despite repeated assurances from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his former top adviser, new documents released by the Commons justice committee reveal.
Gerry Butts, the prime minister's former principal secretary, tabled with the committee dozens of pages of text messages and a transcript of a Jan. 7 conversation between himself, Trudeau and Wilson-Raybould which took place one week before the Jan. 14 cabinet shuffle.
The transcript of that call, which took place while Wilson-Raybould was vacationing in Bali, confirms that the B.C. MP told the prime minister she believed she was being shifted out of justice "for other reasons." Trudeau told her the shuffle would not be happening if Scott Brison hadn't resigned as Treasury Board president.
Butts' submission includes text messages he exchanged with Wilson-Raybould in subsequent days, which show the two finding it difficult to connect for a telephone conversation.
"Timing of pushing me out (which will be the perception, whether true or not) is terrible. It will be confounding and perplexing to people," reads one text from Wilson-Raybould.
She went on to remind Butts that the government can boast of a "robust and proud record" of advancing justice under her watch, and said that moving her would be "a mistake."
"I feel compelled to say, one last time, and it is my unreserved view, that what is being proposed is a mistake, irrespective of where I am going," she wrote.
"There is no way to explain this. My eyes are wide open on this shift."
The SNC-Lavalin matter was never specifically mentioned in the texts, which are redacted, but Wilson-Raybould has testified that she believes she was shuffled over her refusal to overturn a decision by the director of the Public Prosecution Service of Canada not to offer the Montreal-based engineering firm a remediation agreement as an alternative to criminal prosecution.
Butts offered an explanation for the move, insisting that much of the heavy lifting had been done on the Justice file and that a solid minister was required to head up the Veterans Affairs portfolio, a department with one of the biggest budgets.
"I know this is tough, but we have very good ideas to make it all work from a comms perspective," Butts wrote in one text message. "There's an opportunity here for you to show people a side of yourself and your talent you did not get as MOJAG."
According to Butts' notes, in the initial call with Trudeau on Jan. 7 — when the shuffle was discussed — the prime minister said justice was going to be in "defence" mode up to the election, while Indigenous Services was in "execution mode."
"Need our best players to move to pitch in. Need Canadians to buy in. You are one of top players and this will show Canadians how seriously we take this," said Trudeau, according to the transcript of Butts' notes.
"I know it is not your dream job but it is core to this government to maintain a legacy and, to be crass about it, to our political legacy," Butts wrote in his account of Trudeau's words to Wilson-Raybould.
In a text, Butts said that offering Wilson-Raybould the Veterans Affairs post after she turned down the Indigenous Services file was an "extraordinary" step for the PM to take.
Earlier today, Liberal members of the Commons justice committee used their majority to defeat a Conservative motion to call more witnesses, including Trudeau and several of his top aides, to testify on the SNC-Lavalin matter.
Butts submitted the new documents after Wilson-Raybould tabled 43 pages of new materials — including a written statement, copies of texts and a 17-minute audio recording of a Dec. 19 telephone conversation with Clerk of the Privy Council Michael Wernick. The clerk did not know he was being recorded.
The disclosure of the covert recording has angered many Liberal MPs, with some of them calling it inappropriate and dishonourable.
Read the text messages and transcript submitted by Gerald Butts to the Commons justice committee:
http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/5790453/Gerald-Butts-submission-to-JUST-committee.pdf
David Raymond Amos @DavidRayAmos
Replying to @DavidRayAmos@Kathryn98967631 and 47 others
Methinks it is a long time until October when the fat lady sings again about who won and lost N'esy Pas?
https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/04/wilson-raybould-warned-that-moving-her.html
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/wilson-raybould-butts-justice-committee-1.5081454
Wilson-Raybould warned that moving her from justice portfolio would be 'a mistake'
3080 Comments
Commenting is now closed for this story.
Pam Sutton
Bye liberals, you’re done in October.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Pam Sutton: "Bye liberals, you’re done in October."
How can you be so certain?
Methinks it is a long time until October when the fat lady sings again about who won and lost N'esy Pas?
Don Cameron
Trudeau's explanation that "the shuffle would not be happening if Scott Brison hadn't resigned", does nothing to explain why JWR was moved out of Justice.
As an explanation it leaves much to be desired. No wonder she didn't believe him.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Don Cameron: "No wonder she didn't believe him."
Methinks it is a small wonder why nobody believes politicians not even other politicians N'esy Pas?
Bryan Pollock
We all know the real reason she was moved. Enough of the propaganda and lies
David R. Amos
Content disabled
Reply to @Bryan Pollock: "Enough of the propaganda and lies "Good Luck with that demand
David R. Amos
Reply to @Bryan Pollock: YUP
Greg Lang
All the liberal bobble heads can talk about is the recording. Yup...keep it up...deflect as much as you can.
David R. Amos
John Kimble
Bravo cbc, another excellent smoke screen. All that funding going to good use.
Canadians do not believe Justin or anything else associated with these liberals.
David R. Amos
Reply to @John Kimble: ?Bravo cbc, another excellent smoke screen. All that funding going to good use. '
Methinks that was well worth repeating N'esy Pas?
Methinks that was well worth repeating N'esy Pas?
Jim Smith
Jodi was moved for one reason. Because she would not interfere with the SNC Lavin file. Anyone that watched the so called justice committee antics by the liberals can see that. Additionally Jodi's COS was briefed that the new AG would be putting the SNC lavin file as his top priority.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Jim Smith: "Jodi was moved for one reason'
YUP
YUP
Hugh MacDonald
Hard to name one thing that Trudeau has done that wasn't a mistake.
Rick Rheubottom
Reply to @Hugh MacDonald: Win the election.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Rick Rheubottom: Good Point However methinks it wasn't so much that Trudeau won as Harper and Mulcair lost N'esy Pas?
Don Cameron
Agitated "despite repeated assurances from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his former top adviser"??
Perhaps she just didn't believe him. Many don't.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Don Cameron: "Perhaps she just didn't believe him. Many don't"
Methinks many more never did N'esy Pas?
Methinks many more never did N'esy Pas?
Karin Bougie
New CBC poll tracker poll out, April 2
Cons - 36.2%
NDP - 16.3%
Green - 7.8%
BQ - 4.4%
PPC - 2.4%
Other - 1.2%
That's 68.3% of Canadians that won't vote for Trudeau.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Karin Bougie: Methinks a few Independents may find a seat in the next Parliament N'esy Pas?
Darin Fortin
Canadians have grown tired of socks and hair boy.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Darin Fortin: Methinks Harper 2.0 ain't all that popular either N'esy Pas?
Wilson-Raybould warned that moving her from justice portfolio would be 'a mistake'
'My eyes are wide open on this shift,' ex-justice minister wrote of her move to Veterans Affairs
Jody Wilson-Raybould grew increasingly agitated about being moved from the justice portfolio — and public perceptions of her shuffle — despite repeated assurances from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his former top adviser, new documents released by the Commons justice committee reveal.
Gerry Butts, the prime minister's former principal secretary, tabled with the committee dozens of pages of text messages and a transcript of a Jan. 7 conversation between himself, Trudeau and Wilson-Raybould which took place one week before the Jan. 14 cabinet shuffle.
The transcript of that call, which took place while Wilson-Raybould was vacationing in Bali, confirms that the B.C. MP told the prime minister she believed she was being shifted out of justice "for other reasons." Trudeau told her the shuffle would not be happening if Scott Brison hadn't resigned as Treasury Board president.
Butts' submission includes text messages he exchanged with Wilson-Raybould in subsequent days, which show the two finding it difficult to connect for a telephone conversation.
"Timing of pushing me out (which will be the perception, whether true or not) is terrible. It will be confounding and perplexing to people," reads one text from Wilson-Raybould.
"I feel compelled to say, one last time, and it is my unreserved view, that what is being proposed is a mistake, irrespective of where I am going," she wrote.
'My eyes are wide open'
"There is no way to explain this. My eyes are wide open on this shift."
The SNC-Lavalin matter was never specifically mentioned in the texts, which are redacted, but Wilson-Raybould has testified that she believes she was shuffled over her refusal to overturn a decision by the director of the Public Prosecution Service of Canada not to offer the Montreal-based engineering firm a remediation agreement as an alternative to criminal prosecution.
Butts offered an explanation for the move, insisting that much of the heavy lifting had been done on the Justice file and that a solid minister was required to head up the Veterans Affairs portfolio, a department with one of the biggest budgets.
"I know this is tough, but we have very good ideas to make it all work from a comms perspective," Butts wrote in one text message. "There's an opportunity here for you to show people a side of yourself and your talent you did not get as MOJAG."
According to Butts' notes, in the initial call with Trudeau on Jan. 7 — when the shuffle was discussed — the prime minister said justice was going to be in "defence" mode up to the election, while Indigenous Services was in "execution mode."
"Need our best players to move to pitch in. Need Canadians to buy in. You are one of top players and this will show Canadians how seriously we take this," said Trudeau, according to the transcript of Butts' notes.
Political legacy
"I know it is not your dream job but it is core to this government to maintain a legacy and, to be crass about it, to our political legacy," Butts wrote in his account of Trudeau's words to Wilson-Raybould.
In a text, Butts said that offering Wilson-Raybould the Veterans Affairs post after she turned down the Indigenous Services file was an "extraordinary" step for the PM to take.
Earlier today, Liberal members of the Commons justice committee used their majority to defeat a Conservative motion to call more witnesses, including Trudeau and several of his top aides, to testify on the SNC-Lavalin matter.
Butts submitted the new documents after Wilson-Raybould tabled 43 pages of new materials — including a written statement, copies of texts and a 17-minute audio recording of a Dec. 19 telephone conversation with Clerk of the Privy Council Michael Wernick. The clerk did not know he was being recorded.
The disclosure of the covert recording has angered many Liberal MPs, with some of them calling it inappropriate and dishonourable.
Read the text messages and transcript submitted by Gerald Butts to the Commons justice committee:
http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/5790453/Gerald-Butts-submission-to-JUST-committee.pdf
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