Vertaling van "friends he now wants to deny he ever had anything " (Engels → Frans) :

He left the government in May 1990, but he was part of that gang, part of his colleagues, part of the cabinet, part of the so-called friends he now wants to deny he ever had anything to do with who put this darned bad deal together.
Il a quitté le gouvernement en mai 1990, mais il faisait partie de cette bande, du Cabinet, de ce groupe de prétendus amis dont il veut maintenant se distancer en niant avoir participé à cette entente pourrie.

Finally, during some of this negotiating after he had actually approved some of the wording that appeared in Bill C-547, he said that now he has been appointed parliamentary secretary he can no longer deal with the legislation, and by the way, he is not aware of anything that the Minister of Justice might want to do in this matter.
Finalement, durant ces négociations, alors qu'il avait en fait approuvé une partie du libellé du projet de loi C-547, il a décrété que dorénavant, puisqu'il était nommé secrétaire parlementaire, il ne pouvait plus s'occuper de cette mesure législative.