Butts is back – and suddenly the Liberal crew is looking awfully familiar | CBC News
Among the 60 people who gathered at a downtown Ottawa hotel for a
day and a half this month to discuss the Liberal government’s campaign
for re-election was Gerry Butts, the senior adviser and close friend of
Justin Trudeau who left the Prime Minister’s Office five months ago in
the midst of Trudeau’s painful spring.
In February, Butts
stepped away because his presence — and the suggestion that he was
somehow involved in inappropriately pressuring the former attorney
general — threatened to be a drag on the government’s ability to pursue
its mandate. From the outside, Butts was able to mount his own defence
against Jody Wilson-Raybould’s accusations.
The return of Butts
(who was widely credited with helping to define the Trudeau Liberal
message and narrative in the first place) might reassure Liberals who
valued his contribution to the 2015 campaign and the first
three-and-a-half years of the Trudeau government.