The former ministers have already resigned from the prime minister’s office, but have now also been excluded from the liberal party’s nomination, just months before the election.
the Construction company SNC-Lavalin Group is involved in a corruption scandal in Libya where a number of officials shall have the mutats. Both Philpott and Wilson-Raybould has testified about how government officials exerted pressure to get the investigation discontinued. The prime minister Justin trudeau, his involvement in this has in the past been described as his biggest political challenge so far.
the allegations against him and his officials. And now the two former ministers Wilson-Raybould and Philpott excluded from the party because they criticized the prime minister’s actions.
Andrew Scheer, in the opposition and the leader of the conservative party statement on Twitter about the incident: ”If the liberal party chooses to speak the truth, there is no place for these in the party”.
the Prime minister has repeatedly spoken out about the declining confidence of the Wilson-Raybould and Philpott, as members of his party.
“If they do not have confidence in our team, they can’t be a part of it”, said the prime minister Justin trudeau, his in the media shortly after the news of the exclusion of the former ministers briserat.
said that they still want to be a candidate for the liberal party in the next general elections. They have also expressed dismay over not getting to participate in the party’s nomination.
” this is not about lack of loyalty. On the contrary, I recommended that the government acknowledge what happened in order to be able to go on. This was an expression of loyalty, not disloyalty, told Philpott that the prime minister now decided to exclude both her and Wilson-Raybould.
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