PM Strikes More Conciliatory Tone After Second Minister Resigns Over SNC Lavalin

PM Strikes More Conciliatory Tone After Second Minister Resigns Over SNC Lavalin
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during the Gender Equality Advisory Council working breakfast on the second day of the G7 Summit in Quebec City, Canada, on June 9, 2018. Leon Neal/Getty Images
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OTTAWA—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau dropped his insistence that his government has done nothing wrong in the SNC-Lavalin affair after a second cabinet minister in less than a month resigned Monday, March 4.

Treasury Board president Jane Philpott handed in her resignation Monday afternoon, saying she’s lost confidence in the way the government has dealt with criminal charges against the Montreal engineering giant.