“This is not a great place for me to be in,” Wilson-Raybould tells Wernick near the end of the phone call. Less than three weeks after that phone call, Wilson-Raybould was told she would be removed as justice minister and shuffled into a different cabinet role. I am not seeing anything inappropriate hereThe audio recording confirms Wilson-Raybould’s description of her conversation with Wernick during her February testimony. After her phone call with Wernick, Wilson-Raybould wrote that the next time she heard from the prime minister or anyone in his office was on Jan. 7, when Trudeau told her she was being shuffled. “The Prime Minister stated publicly when issues about the propriety of the government’s conduct in relation to the SNC matter arose that my ongoing presence in cabinet spoke for itself,” she wrote.

Source: National Post March 29, 2019 20:25 UTC