Making a reference to the Watergate scandal, former justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould said she had thoughts of the “Saturday Night Massacre” when she received what she characterized as “veiled threats” from her government on losing her job unless she cooperated on the SNC-Lavalin issue.
She was referring to events on Saturday, Oct. 20, 1973, when U.S. President Richard Nixon ordered his attorney general to fire the special prosecutor assigned to the Watergate scandal. The attorney general refused and resigned, and so did his deputy after Nixon asked him to do the same.
