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OTTAWA/QUEBEC EDITION ■ FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2019 ■ GLOBEANDMAIL.COM

British Prime Minister Boris

Johnson on Thursday denied ly-

ing to the Queen over the rea-

sons for suspending Parliament

after a court ruled his decision

was unlawful and opponents

called for lawmakers to be re-

called to discuss Brexit.

Since Mr. Johnson won the top

job in July, Britain’s Brexit crisis

has spun more furiously, leaving

investors and allies bewildered

by an array of decisions that

have pushed the once stable po-

litical system to its limits.

Parliament was prorogued on

Monday until Oct. 14, a move Mr.

Johnson’s opponents said was

designed to thwart their at-

tempts to scrutinize his plans for

leaving the European Union and

to allow him to push through

Brexit on Oct. 31, with or without

a deal to smooth the United

Kingdom’s departure.

Scotland’s highest court of ap-

peal ruled Wednesday that the

suspension was not lawful and

was intended to stymie lawmak-

ers, prompting opponents to

question whether Mr. Johnson

had lied to the Queen, who must

formally order the prorogation.

“Absolutely not,” Mr. Johnson

said when asked by a TV reporter

whether he had misled the

Queen, who is the world’s long-

est reigning monarch and is

widely respected for more than

67 years of service during which

she has stayed above the fray of

politics.

JOHNSON, A

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ANDREWMACASKILL

GUYFAULCONBRIDGELONDON

Russian police raided more than 150 ad-
dresses affiliated with opposition leader
Alexey Navalny across the country Thurs-
day, a massive effort seen as punishment
for a summer of political unrest.
An estimated 1,000 police officers –
some wearing masks and riot gear as they
smashed through doors – took part in
raids targeting the offices of Mr. Navalny’s

Anti-Corruption Foundation, as well as

the homes of some of his supporters, in

Moscow and 40 other cities.

The officers disabled security cameras

before they confiscated computers and

other equipment and told the activists

that the raids were part of a money-laun-

dering investigation into Mr. Navalny’s

group.

The co-ordinated police action came

just days after Mr. Navalny’s supporters

showed their growing clout via a munici-

pal election Sunday in Moscow. The oppo-

sition used strategic voting to oust several

pro-Kremlin incumbents, although the

pro-government United Russia party

maintained its majority.

Mr. Navalny and his allies also staged a

series of large anti-government demon-

strations in the Russian capital over the

summer, protesting an official decision to

bar more than a dozen opposition candi-

dates from running in the city council

vote.

The authorities responded harshly to

the protests, arresting more than 2,

people.

RUSSIA, A

Russialaunchesmassraidsagainstoppositionactivists

MARKMacKINNON
SENIORINTERNATIONALCORRESPONDENT
MOSCOW

Legal and political experts are rejecting
Justin Trudeau’s statement that it is up to
Canada’s top bureaucrat to decide whether
to lift the veil of cabinet secrecy over the
SNC-Lavalin affair, saying that waiving
confidentiality is a political decision in the
hands of the prime minister.
Retired judge John Gomery, who led a
public inquiry into the federal sponsorship

program in 2004 and 2005, said he was ini-

tially rebuffed by senior bureaucrats when

he asked for access to cabinet minutes re-

lated to the national-unity initiative,

which was marred by fraud and corrup-

tion. The Liberal prime minister of the day,

Paul Martin, eventually overrode the se-

nior bureaucrats and agreed to provide ac-

cess to all available information.

“It is a political decision,” Mr. Gomery

said in an interview. “Their usual rules are

there is no disclosure of what goes on in

cabinet. Like every rule, there are excep-

tions. I had one of them, and we’ll find out

if there will be another one in the SNC-La-

valin case.”

A report by Ethics Commissioner Mario

Dion said the Prime Minister violated the

Conflict of Interest Act when he and senior

officials improperly pressed Jody Wilson-

Raybould when she was attorney-general

to order the Public Prosecution Service to

settle fraud and bribery charges against

SNC-Lavalin Group Inc., the Montreal-

based engineering and construction giant.

CABINET,A

Trudeaucontrolswaiverof

cabinetconfidentialityonSNC

RetiredjusticeGomerysaysdisclosureofcabinetconfidences‘apoliticaldecision’

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