"I and my staff always acted appropriately and professionally," Trudeau said Wednesday night in Montreal, where he was celebrating a Liberal Party by-election victory. "Our government will always focus on jobs and our economy."



The image of Wilson-Raybould, Canada's first Indigenous attorney general, skewering her ex-boss, a famed liberal who pledged to improve relations with native peoples and self-described feminist, has taken the shine off the PM.



"This is a huge, huge blow to Justin Trudeau's personal brand and Justin Trudeau's promise of doing politics differently," a polling firm executive told the New York Times. "That shine is not dented or scratched. It's been completely scuffed."



Wilson-Raybould was the only Indigenous Canadian in Trudeau's cabinet, before she resigned.