Likely, the government never imagined an AG would put principle over the crass political #MeFirst interests of Team Liberal
Scorecard: Director of Public Prosecutions Kathleen Roussel and deposed attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould, who so resolutely backed her, 1, SNC-Lavalin 0.
It was that decision the company sought to overturn at the Federal Court; it also wanted Roussel to be ordered to invite SNC to the table. The RCMP alleges that between 2001 and 2011, SNC-Lavalin and two of its wholly owned subsidiaries paid almost $48 million to Libyan public officials to influence government decisions on contracts.
In other words, the “protecting Canadian jobs” mantra adopted by the PM, Clerk of the Privy Council Michael Wernick and the PM’s former principal secretary, Gerry Butts, as justification for pressuring Wilson-Raybould to overrule Roussel and invite SNC to the table, is verboten by law in the current case.
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