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Trudeau says he takes lessons from Cabinet scandal

Published: 07 Mar 2019 - 04:31 pm | Last Updated: 05 Nov 2021 - 11:54 am
FILE PHOTOS: Canadian Prime Minster Justin Trudeau, Liberal MP and former Canadian justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould (L) and Gerald Butts, who quit last month as Trudeau's chief aide, are seen in this combination photo from recent file photos in Toron

FILE PHOTOS: Canadian Prime Minster Justin Trudeau, Liberal MP and former Canadian justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould (L) and Gerald Butts, who quit last month as Trudeau's chief aide, are seen in this combination photo from recent file photos in Toron

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TORONTO: Justin Trudeau says he has taken many lessons from a Cabinet controversy that has shaken Canada's government in an election year, but the prime minister isn't apologizing.

Trudeau said Thursday there was an "erosion of trust" and a "lack of communication" between his office and former Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould, who says Trudeau and senior members of his government inappropriately tried to pressure her to avoid criminal prosecution of a Canadian company.

Trudeau and his aides deny that, saying they were only pointing out that prosecution could endanger thousands of people's jobs.

Trudeau says Wilson-Raybould did not come to him to express her concerns and says he wishes she had.