You are a lawyer. I am a lawyer. But it may be that the Attorney General was not a lawyer at the time of the incident. That is to say, we have now learned that she was not a lawyer in the eyes of the legal profession when the decision was made to continue with the prosecution of SNC-Lavalin on charges of fraud and corruption.
The dean of law at the University of Ottawa, Adam Dodek, who wrote a book called Solictor-Client Privilege, has argued as follows:
Under existing doctrine, it is difficult to reach any other conclusion other than legal advice from a non-lawyer Attorney General is not encompassed by Solicitor-Client Privilege because a non-lawyer Attorney General does not qualify as a 'professional legal adviser'.
What are your thoughts on that?