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Gerald Butts, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s best friend and closest political advisor, is returning to the Liberal fold as a senior political strategist for the Oct. 21 federal election.

This according to a CBC report on Saturday.

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With respect, it’s hard to believe Butts was ever out of the Liberal fold, from the moment he resigned as Trudeau’s all-powerful principal secretary on Monday, Feb. 18, at the height of the Lavscam scandal.

At that time, Butts said he had done nothing wrong, meaning he had not pressured then attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould to grant a deferred prosecution agreement to SNC-Lavalin on charges of fraud and corruption.

Based on the testimony by all parties at the truncated public hearings on Lavscam before the Liberal-dominated justice committee, I believe Butts’ claim he did not pressure Wilson-Raybould as much as I believe Trudeau’s original claim that the report in the Globe and Mail that broke the story was “false.”