The Libranos: SNC Lavalin

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REMAIN CALM.


THE PRIME MINISTER HAS THE SITUATION UNDER CONTROL.

While all the intrigue continues to swell over the federal charges it faces for corruption — as in greasing grimy palms in Libya with multi-millions to secure contracts (an accepted cost of doing business in many parts of the world) — Lavalin is apparently in a possibly similar-fact but less-publicized legal pickle closer to the home front.
 
According to a report by the Canadian Press news agency, court documents show prosecutors in Quebec are working with the RCMP on the possibility of laying new criminal charges against Lavalin linked to a contract to refurbish Montreal’s Jacques Cartier Bridge.

Related: Guess who owns 19.9% of SNC Lavalin?

63 Replies to “The Libranos: SNC Lavalin”

    3. I recall looking at SNC-Lavalan’s annual reports over the years. I wouldn’t touch their stock with a barge pole based on the financial statements alone.

    4. Thanks for that link,Nancy. I found the list of “connections” particularly interesting, among them CNOOC, the oil company of China.

      They ARE too big to fail,and they will continue to be protected by whatever Party forms the Government of Canada.

      1. You’re welcome Don.
        ” they will continue to be protected ” you say…

        Of course, they are our ‘first citizens’, the laws are for the rest of us johnny-come-latelies, but they are above the law!

        Ken K is right, this story will probably peter out soon.

        1. SNC-Lavalin is more grist for the mill, talk about a crap-tastic farce!
          We have a multi-tiered justice system, well oiled with Libyan baksheesh.
          Government is about who, what, where and when they get their palms generously ‘greased’.

          Quebec construction has greased palms since at least my father worked on the St Lawrence seaway back in the late ’50s. It is just the way they roll over there. Remember the hue and outcry when MacLeans had the cover with the Bonhomme snowman with a briefcase of cash during the Adscam whitewash? That was embarrassingly close to the truth!

          If you are waiting for “Justice”…that does not happen on this side of heaven.

          Cheers

          Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
          1st Saint Nicolaas Army
          Army Group “True North”

  2. I’m surprised he wasn’t trying to yell “Line?”
    Looks like his media toady’s need more appeasement funds.

    1. MM,is Canader so small time we can’t have those every present almost invisible teleprompters like Prez Obama had everywhere he went?

      Assuming,of course that Justin CAN read.

  3. “Do you want me to regurgitate in English or fwench”… “okay let me try and remember the order of the words”… “In Canada we blah, blah , blah, etc. etc. etc… what an actor… nice hair though. Libranos should use this latest scandal as a campaign slogan… Vote Liberal, we steal, we lie, we obstruct justice, we corrupt everything we touch and we get away with it, so f#$k you! Vote Librano! Well, it is their country.

    2. Notice how when he is in shit he always tries to get his picture taken around masculine men. Example Calgary Stampede, construction workers and heavy equipment, basking in the glow of real men doing manly things. When in reality he is a widdle Liberal brainless Fag. All the soccer mums and hockey moms just a vibrating, he’s their MAN. Look at his hair, so shiny, and those socks. Meanwhile he wears his wifes undergarments at home and lives in fear of a big strapon.

    1. Yes.

      I suspect he studied his lines in French just fine, hence the do you want that in English routine.

      1. “Do you want me to say my lines in English or fwench”? … he probably says one thing in English and another thing in quebeky fwench… for the different audiences… Reminds me of porn star Dirk Diggler rehearsing a scene with Roller Girl in the movie Boogie Nights when Dirk turns to the Burt Reynolds character and says, “do you want me to use a spanish accent Jack?” … You know Dirk Turdhole would love to dress up for every “press conference” he does… he should too… be like his crazy Dad and dress up like a pirate or better yet be like his Dad and dress up as a Nazi. “The Fwench Erection” starring, Dirk Turdhole as the Groper and Gerry Butt as Hienrich Himmler… a heritage moment. Time for the Turdhole to take a vacay… again.

  5. https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/brodbeck-even-liberals-were-in-dark-on-white-collar-crime-exemption/wcm/99e9236a-2be1-4a4c-ba1e-35510c11e8d9

    Opposition MPs on the committee also wanted to know why the proposed criminal code change was hidden in a budget bill and requested it be severed out and put before the justice committee for a proper review.
    It never did get severed.
    The bill was approved by Parliament as is and it received royal assent in June.

    It became law in September and immediately upon proclamation, SNC-Lavalin applied for an exemption.
    -as if the new law was ready made for them-

    Wilson- Reybould denied the exemption…got fired
    The new AG will obviously approve!

    1. If SNC doesn’t get the DPA the Quebec punditry is already staging it as Quebec getting knifed by the ROC.

      How soon before someone in the Ottawa press gallery refers to a unity crisis?

  6. Will change the law to keep jobs in Quebec, but will hinder the oil patch in western Canada regardless of the job losses.

    The apple didn’t fall far from the tree.

    1. Now that New Brunswick has backed out of the Francophonie games, Quebec has said it wants them but the federal government has to pay for most of it. In other words, Quebec once again wants the rest of Canada to pay for something it wants.

      1. And how much of the money will line Liberal pockets?

        Reminds me of the great deals Liberals got on all the cars bought for the G7 meeting!

  7. Such a scumbag Quebec politician. A vote for a Quebec prime minister is to spit in the eye of Canada.

      1. The ukerainien sausage princess has dispatched 50 observers (her closest friends) to Ukraine to ‘monitor’ elections…..Yeah that’ll make it right. 50 Canadians and an entourage of civil servants (who do the real work).

        The report will suggest irregularities, fraud (Ukraine is a corrupt country) and of course the standard Russian meddling. Sounds a lot like Canada.

      2. When the going gets tough Turdeau takes a vacation.

        His ‘job’ on this trip will be to take lots of selfies.

        Maybe we should tell the yellow vest movement that Turdeau is in France to persuade Macaroni to keep the faith and raise CO2 taxes.

  9. It appears that Canada cannot help itself, it keeps electing Liberal Party of Canada governments. They inevitably screw over the 3 million people in Alberta, to buy votes in Quebec. This is not a sustainable arrangement. It becomes apparent to investors that their investments are not very secure in Alberta, and therefore less desirable. It could be a very long wait for another BOOM in our boom-and-bust economy, here on the Prairies. Perhaps a FREE REPUBLIC could develop some kind of a sustainable economy, free from the Chains of Confederation, but I don’t think I’m going to hold my breath.

    1. Memo to Conservative Party:

      Commercial begins with stentorian voice intoning:

      India……the most populous democracy in the world.
      The sixth largest and one of the fastest growing economies of the world.
      With extensive and growing ties to Canada.

      And here is Canada’s Prime Minister……….insert video of Mr. Pas Pret dancing bhangra.

  10. Manny Montenegrino has lost credibility lately on Twitter for cheap shots against Maxime Bernier. The guy is a classic Scheer supporter; go with the flow, don’t rock the Quebec boat and criticize Trudeau until a CPC government will bring the same old style of tired, tax tax tax and pandering rule.

    1. Noticed a lot of pundits recently taking pot shots at Max when he has keep relatively clear of the blast radius.

      “Methinks the maid doth protest too much”

  11. If there’s a whiff of corruption in government it needs to be weeded out. This looks like racketeering. They can’t be straight forward and allow the truth to be told, that in itself tells the story. This is grounds for resignations, who will be the fall guy?
    Our opposition needs to hammer them into submission. They are really squirming, not a good sign.

  13. SNC is the tip of the iceberg on how Canada is ran. This affair exposes how the economic affairs of the country are skewed for the benefit of eastern Canada. Western Canadians get PO’ed with the equalization number of $13 billion is sent to Quebec each year. I would suggest this is less than half of the actual subsidy received. Ontario who also takes advantage at the same trough but not through equalization.

    There is a fundamental divergence of economic interests between east and West. When the Canadian dollar strengthened during the Harper years it was scape goated for the reasons manufacturing was collapsing in Ontario and Quebec. Eastern politicians escaped the hard questions and accountability for their failures for increasing debt and input cost. This failed opportunity for a open national discussion would have laid on the table the reason why many Westerners like me no longer have faith in this country. The exploitive attitude of eastern Canada will not change or simply cannot change as the debt exists and their economy cannot withstand the change required without significant disruption. IMHO that disruption cannot be avoided as the inevitable breakdown is quickly coming.

    I will no longer support national political parties. I did not support Reform’s move east and time has shown the utter failure of that effort. If Alberta decides to boycott economic co-operation with those who exploit her then I will support that effort. 150,000 workers have lost their jobs in the oil patch, the forest industry has had tariffs to the tune of billions $ for 3 years now and investment capital is shunning the West now. Yet, we are expected to pay 2500 GM workers PTSD benefits and allow SNC the ability to bribe politicians as part of their business plan. In actual fact I hope the Liebels do get re-elected as they will bring the expected collapse that much quicker.

    2. Manning sold out the west and the fossil fuel industry when he jumped on the global warming bandwagon. He was also behind the stupid b!tch that joined the idiot Prentice and brought us Notley. He divided the conservatives and brought us Chretien. Manning and the reform were a disaster. Will only vote for my MLA or MP if he or she supports Alberta Independence.

      1. I detested preeeeeeston maaaaaaaning right from the start.
        just too, I dunno, ‘textbook’ conservatist for me.
        plus my political radar sounded the alarm. sometimes it takes a while to figure out what the alarm situation is, the truth came out with that pryck real early. basically he was an uber HYPOCRITE, in it for POWAH.

    1. Thanks for the chuckle, Comrade.

      Goodbye Lotusland…..

      Goodbye Alberta with it’s NDP government and paltry Heritage Fund.

      Goodbye Sasky……home of Tommy………..

      Goodbye Winni…..home of the reds…..

      Mix em all in and shake it all up.

      Can’t wait to see the Capitalistic, Entrepreneurial, Pure as the Devine, Bastion of Freedom that results!

        1. Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba would do just fine if they joined up and left. We even have a tidewater port at Churchill on Hudson Bay.

  16. Canadians in their personal lives are very conservative. They are politically liberal. Overwhelmingly. This is especially true in Ontario, quebek and the maritimes. People look to the government for solutions and the redistribution of wealth. In the west this view is not so prevalent but it is becoming so.

    Given these conditions no true Conservative party can ever form government. A party that ran on a platform of privatizing medicare, reforming education, toll roads, getting rid of the cbc, smaller government…etc wouldn’t elect 1 member west of Ontario.

    In order to meet conditions that would possibly elect a ‘conservative’ government our conservative politicians only pretend to be conservative. They still support all the things near and dear to a liberals heart or they wouldn’t stand a snowballs chance in hell.

    What we get when we elect a conservative government is more of the same – with the possibility of some minor change. Once the government changes back to liberals many of the changes are reversed.

    That, my friends, is Canada. A rich,hopelessly ungovernable liberal quagmire that is run on corruption. If Canada wasn’t blessed with untold wealth it would have disintegrated into a collection of euro style unhappy fiefdoms. Perhaps that is where we are headed?

    1. abt, great comment. The main reason we haven’t split up into Euro style fiefdoms is we don’t have the tribalism of Europe, apart from the Quebec tribe which has managed to steal the real power in this country from the ROC.

      It IS far past the time the West should have separated, in the 1970’s, but Trudeau would have called out the troops on us and jailed anyone who tried it. It will never happen now, our politicians are all way too comfortable with the system we have,and why wouldn’t they be? I expect the next government to expand the House,perhaps to 370 or so MP’s, just to get more hogs to the trough.

      I feel sorry for some conservatives I know who think that the election of the CPC and Scheer is going to mean “sunny ways” for Canada. As has been said by many here, CPC/LPC, two sides of the same coin.

      On the plus side, Scheer HAS promised to expunge the handgun seizure laws if he’s elected to PM, but he DOES believe in Climate Change,as do both of the CPC candidates here, so we won’t get much relief on that issue.

      And SNC-Lavalin will continue to do business under Scheer,after a couple of low level minions go to jail briefly,and the new A-G will be a hell of a lot more of an insider than JW-R.

    2. •ab and don morris
      @ 12:12 and 3:14 pm

      I agree with you both. Great comments.

      Except ab : second sentence, not so much. Eh? Some of us are Libertarians right?

      1. NR: Perhaps I should have said, they are philosophically liberal.

        I consider myself a fiscal conservative and a social libertarian. Perhaps you do as well. Regrettably libertarians are an endangered species. I don’t think they ever existed in numbers.

        dm: You are correct in that we don’t have the tribalism that exists in Europe. With the exception of quebek we are more of a melting pot not unlike the US.

        Tribalism is the reason the EU will collapse. Millions of years of tribal DNA is burned into each of us. That doesn’t disappear just because some SJW says it should.

    3. Awesome comment abtrapper.

      That has been my view for a very long time: there is no winning truly conservative constitueny in Canada.
      This is why it’s always eyerolls here when some excitable commenters angily cite Harper’s failure to shut down the CBC.

      THE CBC CANNOT BE SHUT DOWN.

      Imagine the hopeless sales pitch:
      VOTE for me and I’ll force you to be more self reliant; I’ll take many goodies away; but over the long term you and your children and grandchildren will benefit immeasurably from a stonger more prosperous economy.

      The phoniest phrase in liberland is “think of the children”.
      Liberals don’t walk that talk or, perhaps more accurately, they lack the requisite economic understanding to be able to walk that talk.

    4. Canadians aren’t even remotely conservative in anything. They don’t care about anything but cheap weed and stuffing food in their mouths.

      This is why this country will be sold off piecemeal after the next election.

  17. I don’t know.

    Seems to me that we’ve never actually had even a remotely Conservative government in Canada.

    Not even close.

    1. cc, could you please describe your version of a “Conservative Government. I’m not being flippant or argumentative, it’s just that SO many bloggers throw the phrase “real conservative” around without explaining exactly what that creature is.
      I have been accused often,right here at SDA of not being a “real conservative”, but as I have no idea what in hell a real conservative IS,can’t argue the point. And no one seems to be able to give me a good example of a living “real conservative”.
      I was told,here,that John McCain was a “Real Conservative”, and so was Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, G.W.Bush.G.H.W.Bush, Jeff sessions,Brian Mulroney, Kim Campbell, Stephen Harper, until they said or did something people didn’t like, then the line became,”well I never thought he WAS a real conservative”.

      So, in your opinion, what IS a Real Conservative, and what legislation would you expect from a “Real Conservative Government”. The Ayatollah Khomeini WAS a “real conservative” but I don’t think he’s the guy people think of when they talk about a real conservative. Maybe I’m wrong.

      With Andy Scheer, we’ll be getting a “real professional Canadian politician”.

  18. In the above video Trudeau’s mumbling sounded a lot like he was saying “I just have to remember my lines” and we know who wrote the lines.

  19. The Conservatives under Mr. Harper lost my support when he didn’t kill off the CBC when he/we had the majority. I attended the conventions in Ottawa leading up to the ‘New’ party but realized early on that the Reformers had been conned. Again.
    It is well past time to get the hell out! Leadership is all that is lacking. There will be followers.

    1. CRB; Yes, we lost almost 30 years from when Reform was started. I met Preston Manning a number of times and he is a good man who thought he could actually convince easterners. Perhaps we were all played. I could hardly believe that the vote to go east passed by 95%. We talked about provincial wings of Reform that would talk directly to the PMO. We could have elected governments in BC, AB, SASK and maybe MAN. Not interested in that process anymore.

      Kenney can start with a uni-lateral declaration of independence and others will follow. Why will it work this time? AB is seeing their society fall apart in front of their eyes. Unlike Reform days the new effort will have support of industry and a intellectual level of commitment we did not see during Reform days.

      1. CT: I recall the process of uniting the PC’s and Reform. It took 3 straight librano majority governments before those on the ‘right’ decided they’d had enough. By then Peter McKay had taken over the PC’s and Harper in a bitter fight wrested control of Reform (with the resultant bitter feelings) from Manning.

        Harper then set about trying to unite conservatives in Canada. He realized Reform couldn’t sell outside the west (with few exceptions) and McKay knew the PC’s were a spent force (thanks to Mulroney).

        Imagine those 2 factions (bitter enemies) even being in the same room or even trying to get them to talk. The PC’s hated Reform and Reform saw them as sell outs. So compromises were made in the name of unity. The hard core Reformers have never forgiven Harper.

        Was Manning a good guy with a vision of Canada? Without a doubt but he was mocked by eastern politicians and their friends in the media. Instead of carefully considering his ideas they made, fun of his hair and his voice. He couldn’t sell to the east.

        So were we played? Sure we were. 95% of Reformers (idealists) thought their message would sell to big government loving corrupt eastern politicians. It didn’t.

        The CPC is now an amalgam of eastern ‘conservatives’ with few Reformers or their ideas left. Jason Kenney was probably the last of the real Reformers in the Harper government. By the time Harper had become PM he’d come to realize that being a pragmatist was the way to survive. Politics is afterall the art of the possible.

        As Premier of Alberta Kenney would not have the constitutional authority to declare Albertan independence.

    2. ?
      you mean harper the demagogue?
      https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2015/08/10/Harper-Abuses-of-Power-Final/

      one simply, CANNOT deny ALL of these descriptions of abuse.

      dem·a·gogue
      Dictionary result for demagogue
      /ˈdeməˌɡäɡ/
      noun
      noun: demagogue; plural noun: demagogues

      1.
      a political leader who seeks support by appealing to the desires and prejudices of ordinary people rather than by using rational argument.
      “a gifted demagogue with particular skill in manipulating the press”

      1. If you want to talk about abuses of power, Harper was an amateur compared to the Liberals (who are super abusers) and the NDP who are skilled abusers.

      2. hb,I get the Tyee newsletter every week, to them and their columnists it’s a contest between Hitler and Harper as to who was worse. They even have the rabid Michael Harris as a columnist now.
        Harper wasn’t perfect, no person or politician ever was or is, some try to do the best they can for this country,and some,like the current PM think everything we did to this point was wrong and desperately needs a fix.

        Gerald Butt’s idea of fixing Canada means turning the whole country into one BIG park,with a few cities in which all the people live. Remember Harper’s great line,”the environmentalists want to turn Canada into a big pristine wilderness. People LIVE here”!

  21. I thought it would take two terms of the Liberals to get the Rest of the West off their asses.
    I underestimated the arrogance of the puppet’s masters.
    Can anyone make a logical case for remaining in confederation?
    How will the prospects of Alberta,Northern BC and Saskatchewan improve by staying in this toxic relationship?
    I can see the benefits for Eastern Canada,as they continue to take more than they contribute.
    But for the rest?
    Even Northern Ontario is being raped by the voters of Toronto.
    Most of Manitoba is ignored.
    What kind of country has a blatant two tier Just Us System and prohibition of interprovincial trade and worker movement?

  22. JR: you touch on something that I’ve been thinking about.

    It didn’t take the libranos 2 or 3 terms to really get the west riled. It also didn’t take 2 or 3 terms to demonstrate their ethical shortcomings. It started immediately.

    Typically it takes voters 2 or 3 terms to tire of an incumbent government. Maybe the age of social media and the way news is obtained today will bring a new era of one term government? We no longer wait for todays paper to read yesterdays news or even wait until 6 pm before we know something took place on the other side of the world.

    I sense a change is occurring. We can only hope.

  23. Well A.B.Trapper we start with an advantage,we tried to “reform” the kleptocracy of Canada,believing a more honest and equitable deal for the West inside Canada was possible.
    So we have seen Pierre The Idiot and spent wasted decades paying for those excesses.
    We saw the best the united conservatives could do.
    Now we see how ignorance and arrogance can mobilize people,as it hits them hard in the pocket.
    Confederated Canada is screwed,when it comes to convincing Western Canadians of their “good intentions”.
    Separation is now legal.
    The future we wish to leave our children is tottering,with no support from these politicians.
    And Canada has no army to attack any who wish to go their own way.
    Every institution that served to unite us has been cast down,degraded,corrupted and befouled.
    Monetarily the West has to ditch the rest.We cannot afford to continue to pay.
    Just as a spouse has to file for divorce before their crackhead partner bankrupts the family.
    But as I said,I await some one smarter than I to make the case for confederation.

  24. John Robertson, you might be waiting a looonnng time for someone to make a compelling case for Confederation. I, for one, see very few reasons to remain inside Canaduh.

    1. Agreed, Peeair and the Liberals dispatched Canada a long time ago, long gone… Turdistan is Canada’s artificial replacement… Turdistan is a corrupt joke, the E-Nazi State conjured and imposed by crazy Peeair… There is no fixing the Turdo E-Nazi State, and frankly why would anyone other than an Indian, Muslim or a franco talker want this corrupt mess to continue.

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