OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's lawmaker who served as the first indigenous justice minister until she clashed with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and sparked a high-profile ethics scandal said on Thursday that she was not planning on running for re-election. Ahead of the 2019 election, Canada's watchdog said Trudeau had violated ethics rules by trying to influence a corporate legal case. In the following election, Trudeau failed to win an outright majority, which forced him to get opposition support for legislation. To try to win a majority, Liberal sources say Trudeau is eyeing a September snap election. In the letter to her constituents explaining her decision not to run again, Wilson-Raybould did not mention Trudeau by name.

Source: The Star July 08, 2021 16:07 UTC