Let’s not forget them.
After Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s failed efforts to see SNC-Lavalin avoid prosecution led to him losing two key ministers, his edge in the polls and (almost) his party’s hold on government, the Quebec engineering firm at the centre of the controversy walked away today with a plea deal that looks a lot like what it asked the government for in the first place.
A judge on Thursday accepted the plea deal that a division of SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. struck with the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). Under the agreement, the company pleaded guilty to one charge of fraud over $5,000 in relation to the company’s activities in Libya.
All other charges have been dropped.
Main take away: “So we’re very happy that it’s now over. We are free to bid as normal. This guilty plea does not prevent construction, or any other entity of the group, to bid on public contracts.”
@globeandmail — SNC shares surge…
No doubt they were lent the $280 million in advance by the likes of BDC — maybe a non-repayable loan? You know like Liberal leadership types. Did they ever repay their loans?
Hey Sheila Gunn-Reid could you do some access to info requests?
Maybe SNC will engineer and build the wall the Libranos get thrown onto one day.
i r, my thoughts as well.
I’m sure some activist lawyer will be taking this to the supreme court like they did with Nadon?!?!
Which judge approved this?
Not one corrupt ass in prison.
Communist Canada
A Diverse Gentler Totalitarian Post National State
Sacred cow about to be fattened…
On the scales of Justice, this weighs in on the side of Wexit.
JWR still angling to get back in the LPC.
She knows damn well what happened here.
If the bribes to Libya were 280 million what are they to the libranos? What did the judge get?
Business as usual in quebekkie
I await the day Canadian Natural Resources stock rises 50% the day Prime Doofus leaves office.
Looks like I’ll be waiting a lot longer.
Oh look the corruption index is up again…!
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht – Commander in Chief
Army Group “True North”
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
When you own the courts it is so easy to make the need to investigate corruption go away.
Why should SNC worry?
They used Canadian Government funds to bribe, I mean expand foreign trade, I wonder how much found its way back to the Liberal Party.
There is a reason they go crazy when out of power,first their revenues drop off and then they suffer the terrible fear that some one might accidently expose them.
Imagine their fear and loathing if we ever had an honest group of citizens elected to power,who started their reign by firing all the corrupt and incompetent civil servants…
As that will never happen in Can Ahh Duh, I guess Madame Guillotine is out of the question?
WEXIT.
For no civil society can survive entrenched corruption .
If it is officially one law for you,another for me, there are no civic institutions to maintain.
What a legacy to pass to your children,a lawless bankrupt state.
Go Can Ahh Duh.
I believe an Independent Alberta can do better,way better.
For the simple reason that in Alberta business can still be done on a handshake.
Of our Eastern Comrades, how many would you do business with on just their word and a handshake?
This is what happens when governments aren’t overthrown American Revolution-style.
Multi-tiered justice system: part of the definition of a sh1th0le banana republic.
The Dominion of Bananada, where the PM is a Criminal and the national police force are accessories. Will someone turn out the lights?
Does SNC have any jobs ongoing or coming up in Alberta or Saskatchewan? I would expect/hope that we see an end to the hiring of corrupt quebecois in western canaduh. If not, Kenney and Moe had better get on it one way or another.
Don’t worry SNC will recover the fine by going over budget on their contracts.
Ah, life in Bananada.
Meanwhile Great Leader Blackie on his never ending speaking tour, told his loyal Unifor journalist yesterday that he did nothing wrong.
Keep watching, no one does business in the middle east or Africa without bribing someone.
As in China (“fragrant grease”)
Bienvenue en République populaire démocratique de Kanada
None of this is surprising.
The only reason this bit of corruption got uncovered was because of one of two reasons or both, namely if someone gets greedy and secondly if someone is asked to sign off on something publicly.
For the first the example I offer is the fallout from Adscam. This would have remained hidden had Paul Martin not have done a hostile takeover of the liberal riding associations and by extension control of the sponsorship funding being funneled to them. Chretien upset at the prospect of being sidelined out of the big chair set his operatives against his operatives and in that civil war any mode of attack was deemed acceptable even those that could cause collateral damage to the LPC.
The second example was the current dust up over SNC and its desire to retain access to federal contracts but for those troublesome bureaucrats at the DPP. All they needed was legislation that allowed the Attorney General to get around Harper’s Accountability Act by directing the DPP to defer this annoying prosecution over corruption that happened years ago. Solution, the deferred prosecution agreement law. Problem solved. Now all they had to do is get the AG to sign off and SNC can get to work on that pipe…. er important project being planned. Problem, because they didn’t properly vet the legislation hastily rammed through as part of the budget omnibus bill, they overlooked the part about how the AG not only has to publicly sign off on the DPA the AG also has to take over the prosecution to request the DPA from the court. The AG then realizing she not only that SNC was ineligible but that she would likely sink her political career by doing so. She didn’t disagree with the politics she disagreed with having to be the stooge. The same could be said with the bureaucrats at the DPP. Matter of fact nobody in the government wanted to have this burning bag of dog dodo in their in box right up to the top bureaucrat Wernick himself. Couple that with the PM and the entire Quebec caucus knowing they would lose politically if they didn’t get that deal for SNC.
I’ll dispense with further dialogue as we have seen that while it was enough to burn the liberals in Quebec the opposition seemed reluctant to use this to their advantage in Ontario as the election result can attest to.
So here is where we are, SNC got what they wanted, the crisis is passed, and Trudeau is still albeit with a minority, still PM.
However, the silver lining is that the dynamic that got them into this mess in the first place, corruption and a weak PM obsessed with proving to the world that he is adored is still there.
The next screw up is right around the corner.
Justin Trudeau is a conservative asset now.
And unfortunately Mr 2% sat on his hands and smiled, allowing the Groper to have it his way! I’m not sure if he even brought it up during the election.
When the criminal from quebec is in charge and wants to save 9000 jobs why should we be surprized that this is the final result.
Quebec may be at the heart of what is obviously a corrupt Canada, but the corrupt Libranos,courts and media are right across the country.
In Canada, the Fix is in, always and everywhere.
ah.
sooooo it was all to do with a stock manipulation scheme.
‘follow da money !!!’