‘DEAR PRIME MINISTER’

The Post’s Stuart Thomson highlights they key elements in now-former cabinet minister Jody Wilson-Raybould’s resignation letter

1 Wilson-Raybould was Veterans Minister for only 29 days after she was demoted from Justice Minister in a cabinet shuffle sparked by Scott Brison’s retirement last month.

2 The former minister thanks all Canadians, but she does not specifically thank Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, whose office is accused of pressuring her to abandon the prosecution of a case against SNC-Lavalin. By contrast, Brison’s resignation letter glowingly mentions Trudeau seven times.

Wilson-Raybould says a lot of thank-yous but at no point does she actually 3 explain why she is resigning.

4 Due to her former role as attorney general, Wilson-Raybould says she can’t comment on the SNC-Lavalin accusations because she is “bound by solicitor-client privilege.” Some experts say Trudeau could waive that privilege if he were so inclined.

5 In her farewell letter after the cabinet shuffle in January, Wilson-Raybould wrote that one of the values she treasures is a justice system “free from even the perception of political interference.”

6 Puglaas is Wilson-Raybould’s Indigenous name. It was given to her as a child by her grandmother and means “a woman born to noble people.” It is notable that she chose to sign with that name which she didn’t do in her farewell letter as justice minister.