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The political scene in Ottawa was rocked by a bombshell story released Thursday morning alleging political interference by the Prime Minister’s Office in a major justice matter.

“Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office attempted to press Jody Wilson-Raybould when she was justice minister to intervene in the corruption and fraud prosecution of Montreal engineering and construction giant SNC-Lavalin Group Inc, sources say, but she refused to ask federal prosecutors to make a deal with the company that could prevent a costly trial,” the Globe & Mail reports in the shocking story.

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A couple of months later, Wilson-Raybould was removed from her post in a cabinet shuffle.

A week ago, former SNC-Lavalin CEO Pierre Duhaime pleaded guilty to what the Canadian Press described as “a charge of helping a public servant commit breach of trust for his role in a bribery scandal around the construction of a $1.3-billion Montreal hospital.”