Ms. Wilson-Raybould resisted the pressure, and quit the cabinet last month. Ms. Philpott was among the few cabinet ministers to publicly side with her. “There can be a cost to acting on one’s principles, but there is a bigger cost to abandoning them,” Ms. Philpott wrote in her resignation letter to Mr. Trudeau on Monday. Privately, several members of his caucus have said Mr. Trudeau has badly fumbled his handling of the controversy. “Philpott was really the talent pool of the Trudeau cabinet, she got things done,” he said.

Source: New York Times March 05, 2019 00:20 UTC