Aboriginal Canadian parliamentarian at the center of Trudeau’s moral scandal quit politics Reuters

Steve Scherer

Ottawa (Reuters)-Canadian lawmakers who served as the first indigenous attorney general before clashed with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and sparked a high-profile moral scandal, she said on Thursday that she did not intend to run for re-election .

50-year-old Jody Wilson-Raybould said on her website that because of partisanship and “the way we practice democracy in Canada”, she can achieve more “changes” outside of federal politics. Sexual change”. She did not say what to do next.

Wilson Ray was first elected as liberal in 2015 and won an independent re-election in Vancouver in 2019.

Trudeau admitted that in 2018 he tried to persuade her to veto the prosecutor’s decision to advance a corruption trial against the construction company SNC-Lavalin Group Inc.. Trudeau said he is trying to save jobs.

When Wilson Rebald refused, she was demoted and later resigned from her cabinet and party positions. Before the 2019 election, Canadian regulators stated that Trudeau had violated the rules of ethics by trying to influence the company’s legal cases.

In the following elections, Trudeau failed to win an absolute majority of seats, which forced him to obtain opposition support for legislation. Liberal party sources said that in order to win a majority of seats, Trudeau plans to hold an early general election in September.

In a letter to voters explaining her decision not to stand for election, Wilson-Rebald did not mention Trudeau’s name.

“In my opinion, federal politics is increasingly becoming a shameful victory for harmful partisanship over substantive action,” she said.

Trudeau’s fierce schism with an indigenous woman also weakened his qualifications as a feminist and supporter of indigenous reconciliation. In recent months, after hundreds of unmarked graves were found in a former indigenous school, this issue has become a people again. The focus of attention.

In her letter, Wilson-Rebald stated that her grandmother was a survivor of the so-called boarding school system: “She was taken away from home to’civilized’, and when she came back, she knew that she had to protect everything she cherished. Struggle.”