MacDougall: Why Justin Trudeau will not sacrifice his PMO come hell or SNC-Lavalin

When Justin Trudeau was leader of Canada’s third-largest party in the House of Commons, he had big opinions on the Prime Minister’s Office and how it functioned.
According to Trudeau, Stephen Harper’s PMO (of which I was a part) was too secretive, too controlling and too partisan. “The boys in short pants” (as we were known) were running amok manhandling elected members and clubbing bureaucrats in the manner of baby seals (I paraphrase, but lightly).
The apotheosis