Canada: Another Trudeau minister quits over scandal
A second member of Canadian PM Justin Trudeau’s cabinet has quit after justice minister resigned last month.
Canada’s prime minister is facing a deepening crisis over his government’s handling of a corruption inquiry.
Treasury Board President Jane Philpott is the second powerful female minister to quit his cabinet after former Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould – who had been demoted to veterans affairs minister in January – resigned last month.
The scandal centres on allegations that Trudeau’s office had tried to pressure Wilson-Raybould to help a Canadian engineering company avoid prosecution over claims it paid bribes to Libya’s former government.
Al Jazeera’s Daniel Lak reports from Toronto.
Published On 6 Mar 2019