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“I felt that there was evidence of an attempt to politically interfere with the justice system in its work on the criminal trial that has been described by some as the most important and serious prosecution of corporate corruption in modern Canadian history.” — Jane Philpott, to Maclean’s magazine, March 21.

There is no need, at all, for Jesuitical soundings of the nature of parliamentary privilege and cabinet solidarity. No need either, at the moment, for protracted researches into whether and how the functions of attorney-general and justice minister should be separated. A crash scene is not the best place to discuss the history of the internal combustion engine.

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The Liberals must surely understand where the standoff between Mr. Justin Trudeau, and ex-ministers Jody Wilson-Raybould (JWR) and Jane Philpott has brought them. They are on the edge of a cliff, and after the detonations set off by Dr. Philpott in her plain-spoken, urgent, and unignorable interview with Maclean’s Paul Wells, they have little ground left to balance on. One more bomblet on the issue of SNC-Lavalin — it doesn’t have to be much — and the valley and all its sharp stones will rush up to meet them.