Trudeau stands up for SNC-Lavalin, but not for his cabinet ministers

In the context of what happened to Jody Wilson-Raybould, it looks like prosecutors have been turned into the tools of politicians or corporations—hardly what was in legislators’ minds in 1998 when Canada passed the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act.

PCO Clerk Michael Wernick told the House Justice Committee that SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. chair Kevin Lynch phoned him on Oct. 15, 2018, to voice his frustration to the top bureaucrat about the government's refusal to negotiate a deferred prosecuation agreement for SNC-Lavalin.The Hill Times file photograpshs

Opinion

BY MICHAEL HARRIS

March 11, 2019

HALIFAX—Politicians love writing their own report cards. And it’s not just Donald Trump who revels in giving himself straight As in everything. Last week, both the prime minister and his former principal secretary assured Canadians that the SNC-Lavalin scandal was much ado about nothing—no m...

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