Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's former principal secretary Gerald Butts is asking to testify on the SNC-Lavalin affair.
His request comes one day after former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould testified that she faced relentless, inappropriate pressure -- and even veiled threats -- from Trudeau, Butts, Canada's top public servant and the finance minister's office to politically interfere the criminal prosecution of the Montreal engineering giant.
Butts, who resigned last week, says he believes he has evidence that will be of assistance to the committee in getting to the bottom the affair.The committee is to meet behind closed doors later this afternoon to plot its next steps.Gerald Butts, senior political adviser to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, takes part in a meeting with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in the cabinet room on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2016. Steve Bannon, the controversial chief strategist to U.S.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks to the media at the Canadian Space Agency headquarters Thursday, February 28, 2019 in St. Hubert, Que.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz
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