Justice officials told Senators SNC didn’t lobby them to get remediation agreements in law

The SNC-Lavalin affair ‘casts a new light’ on the Senate Legal Affairs Committee study of remediation agreements last year, say committee members.

Senators raised concerns back in a May report on changes to the Criminal Code, which brought in deferred prosecution agreements, when former Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould rebuffed requests to appear before the committee.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

February 27, 2019

Despite heavily lobbying ministers and political staff as well as some bureaucrats in other departments, SNC-Lavalin didn't meet with Justice Department officials in the two years leading up to when the deferred prosecution agreements it wanted were ready to be used, departmental officials told Sena...

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