Canadian politician Candice Bergen penned an angry post on Facebook calling for an emergency debate after Mr Trudeau was caused of piling extraordinary pressure onto aides to meddle into a criminal prosecution, which was subsequently dropped by complainant former justice minister and attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould. Mr Trudeau’s governing Liberal party has tanked in popularity amid claims the aides helped Quebec construction firm SNC-Lavalin Group Inc avoid corruption and bribery charges. Ms Bergen raged: “Justin Trudeau has lost the moral authority to govern. “Yesterday, we heard from the former Attorney General that Trudeau & his operatives put coordinated and sustained pressure on her to politically interfere in a criminal prosecution.
“Trudeau, the Finance Minster, the current Attorney General and Clerk of the Privy Council are all implicated.”
She added: “We MUST have an emergency debate in Parliament on the SNC-Lavalin scandal immediately.”
Her post follows a hearing into the matter yesterday, that saw Ms Wilson-Raybould tell the committee she experienced interfering by those employed by Mr Trudeau for four months.
She said: “For a period of four months from September to December 2018, I experienced a consistent and sustained effort by many people within the government to seek to politically interfere in the exercise of prosecutorial discretion in my role as the attorney general of Canada in an inappropriate effort to secure a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) with SNC-Lavalin.”
She added: “Within these conversations there were express statements regarding the necessity of interfering in the SNC-Lavalin matter, the potential of consequences, and veiled threats if a DPA was not made available to SNC-Lavalin.”
The revelations have stunned Canada, with opposition leader Andrew Scheer declaring Mr Trudeau “simply cannot continue to govern now that Canadians know what he had done”.
The scandal has threatened to tear apart Mr Trudeau’s government whose image is based on honesty and transparency.