Trudeau said former Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould and former Treasury Board chief Jane Philpott would no longer be allowed to sit as Liberal legislators. "The trust that previously existed between these two individuals and our team has been broken," Trudeau told an emergency meeting of caucus. It's as simple as that," Justice Minister David Lametti told reporters. But increasingly angry parliamentarians had demanded both women be removed from caucus on the grounds they were undermining party unity. The scandal also cost him the services of his closest aide, Gerald Butts, and Michael Wernick, the head of the federal bureaucracy.

Source: bd News24 April 03, 2019 00:22 UTC