'Everything's fine,' says Gerald Butts, as flames engulf the Canadian Prime Minister's Office

The title is the heading line of an article by John Robson concerning the biggest scandal so far plaguing the Canadian Trudeau government.  Gerald Butts is Justin Trudeau Chief Advisor and close friend.   By the way, Gerald Butts resigned his position on February 18th, 2019, after having spoken the words in the title at an earlier date.

Here is the web address of the article:

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/john-robson-everythings-fine-says-gerald-butts-as-flames-engulf-the-pmo

My comment:

Saving SNC-Lavalin ( a large corporation from Quebec, employer of thousands and big contributor to the Trudeau Liberal party) under the provisions of the new 'remediation agreement' law specially created in 2018 to benefit large corporate friends of the government may or may not be a good thing.  Some prominent people think it is a good thing (see the statements of the Premier of Quebec on the subject).

It was up to the Justice Minister/Attorney-General, under the new law, to consent , or not, to a 'remediation agreement' solution, which would end a possible prosecution of SNC-Lavalin for an alleged offence or offences being investigated.   The prosecutors could have, with the Attorney-General's consent, decided to negotiate with the corporation to achieve a settlement of any prosecution instead of going to trial. 

If a consent was sought, did the Justice Minister/Attorney-General ask for some input from the Prime Minister's Office on such a decision?  Did she get some advice from the PMO?  Is this scandal  all a big hullabaloo over nothing important?  By the way,  many legal experts don't agree it is unimportant.  Despite the hurricane of words from the PMO and other politicians,  none of these questions have been satisfactorily answered or dealt with by the PMO.

What this shows, however, is that,  once again the utter and complete incompetence of the Trudeau regime has become apparent.

Yes, Some Canadians, especially Liberal hacks and supporters, come hell or high water, will probably rally behind the Prime Minister.  My guess is that the majority of aware and concerned voters won't.  Which party is likely to be the beneficiary of this mess?  I suspect it is the Conservatives.

By the way, Gerald Butts resigned his position on February 18th, 2019, after having spoken the words in the title earlier.  The scandal gets worse and worse.