SNC-Lavalin and construction: Calgary city councillors question Green Line officials
Ward 13 Coun. Dan McLean said his office has received calls from residents with questions about the procurement process for the project.
“SNC-Lavalin is a very contentious company and so that’s what they were concerned about, how the selection process is done,” McLean told reporters. “To be clear, I share those concerns.”Last year, SNC-Lavalin was ordered to pay Quebec nearly $30 million to settle criminal bribery charges stemming from bridge work in Montreal.broken the Conflict of Interest Act
after revelations that Trudeau improperly influenced former Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould to offer a deferred prosecution agreement in a criminal case against SNC-Lavalin. Green Line CEO Darshpreet Bhatti told councillors the city’s principles are transparency and fairness when selecting partners bidding on City of Calgary contracts.
Bhatti said the consortium was vetted through an independent review to determine any conflicts of interest or legal issues that would make the companies ineligible to bid on a city contract.“We look at a whole gambit of things from what the city policies are, what the best practices are and legally and legislatively, are they compliant with not just the requirements in the province but Canada at-large,” Bhatti told committee.
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