March 29 In 2016, nine members of one family, including three children under five, died in a house fire on Pikangikum First Nation, a remote northern community near the Manitoba-Ontario border. In 2019, Jody Wilson-Raybould said she took the “extraordinary and otherwise inappropriate step’’ of secretly recording a phone call with the country’s top public servant just before Christmas because she feared the conversation would cross ethical lines and she wanted an exact account of what transpired. An audio recording and transcript of the call with Michael Wernick, then-clerk of the Privy Council, were released publicly in a package of material Wilson-Raybould submitted to the House of Commons justice committee, which was studying whether there was any political interference in a prosecution of Montreal engineering firm SNC-Lavalin. March 30 In

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