Philpott's was the third resignation, so far, in the ongoing SNC-Lavalin affair that has shrouded the Prime Minister's Office in scandal.
SNC-Lavalin finds itself at the centre of a political tempest over allegations prime ministerial aides leaned on former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould to help the company avoid prosecution. After repeatedly refusing to do so, she was removed from her post and given a different Cabinet position instead.
But his explanation of what his government was trying to accomplish, through repeated attempts to engage former attorney-general Jody Wilson-Raybould in discussions of how to handle the case, tends to lend credence to the broad strokes of her allegation that she was put under pressure.
Other Liberal lawmakers have expressed confidence in him.
Mr Trudeau said relations between his office and Ms Wilson-Raybould had clearly been fraying for months.
Andrew Korybko is joined by Christopher C. Black, worldwide criminal lawyer with 20 years of experience in war crimes and global relations, and a commentator on global affairs.
Thursday's remarks, made at an early-morning news conference in Ottawa, seem unlikely to tamp down a controversy that has cost Trudeau two cabinet members - both women - and his closest aide and could very well shape his election prospects.
Polls show that Trudeau's Liberals trail the official opposition Conservatives ahead of the October election. "Canadians expect and deserve to have faith in their institutions and the people who act within them ..."
"What I expect from all of my ministers, and from myself, and by the way it's something that Ms. Wilson-Raybould had always demonstrated as long as I've known her, is that she listens to different points of view and in the end makes her decision".
"There are many lessons to be learned and many things we would have liked to have done differently", he said, but he insisted there was no breakdown in Canadian justice.
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For weeks, Trudeau's government has been rocked by accusations of meddling in the criminal prosecution of engineering giant SNC-Lavalin, which was charged with corruption over alleged bribes paid to secure contracts in Libya.
Such situations, he said, "make governing a challenge".
"I remind the Prime Minister again, he's not the Prime Minister of Quebec, he's the Prime Minister for all Canadians", Moe said.
"Even though I heard she made a decision, I asked her if she could revisit that decision".
MPs are to hold an emergency session of the House of Commons justice committee on Wednesday, and Wilson-Raybould has previously said she would be willing to return to provide additional testimony.
In her resignation letter, Ms Philpott said it had become "untenable" for her to continue to serve in the Cabinet.
Wilson-Raybould testified last she believes she lost the justice job because she didn't give in to "sustained" and "inappropriate pressure" to negotiate a remediation agreement with SNC-Lavalin.
SNC-Lavalin, which employs 9000 people in Canada, was seeking a deferred prosecution agreement to allow the firm to escape with a fine.
"It's now beyond dispute that he and his office bullied and threatened Ms. Wilson-Raybould to get her to let SNC-Lavalin off the hook (and) when she resisted the attempts he fired her", Scheer added.
She crafted Bill C-16, which entrenches gender theory into law by adding "gender expression" and "gender identity" to Canada's Human Rights Code and to the Criminal Code's hate crime section, announcing the bill at a press conference attended by a 10-year-old Charlie Lowthian-Rickert, a "trans girl" from near Ottawa, as reported by the CBC.
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