02.25.2019 - By Michael Spratt, Emilie Taman
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With Canada’s former Attorney General and Minister of Justice Jody Wilson-Rayboul set to testify before the House of Commons Justice Committee’s hearings this week on the sordid SNC-Lavalin affair we summarize the explosive allegations and review the not-so-good evidence of The Clerk of the Privy Council Michael Wernick.
We also summarize the Supreme Court’s decision in R. v. Jarvis - how did it take three levels of court before we were told that teachers can’t take secret recordings of their student’s to later use for their own sexual gratification? It’s a head scratcher.
And we dive into a fantastic new bill by Senator Kim Pate designed to fix Canada’s broken pardon system. Spoiler alert - we like it.