Gerald Butts

…close friend and principal secretary Gerald Butts and Clerk of the Privy Council Michael Wernick said that they had not put inappropriate political pressure on Wilson-Raybould to intercede in the SNC-Lavalin matter.

…close friend and principal secretary Gerald Butts, who had resigned on February 18. When Butts testified before the justice committee on March 6, he said that he had interpreted his conversations with Wilson-Raybould very differently from the way she had characterized them, and he denied that her refusal to intercede…