Set SNC free to negotiate a deferred prosecution agreement so it can get on with its business, making money for shareholders and creating jobs
It is time to liberate SNC-Lavalin from the Liberal scandal now engulfing Ottawa. With each passing day of leaks, innuendo, smears and new revelations of power games it becomes ever more obvious that the global engineering firm is the victim of in-house political wrangling, palace intrigues and serial acts of incompetence.
If the Ottawa Political Theatre Co. wants to keep the exposition of their skulduggery and misfortunes running, fine. Let them drown in their own swampy re-run of Robert Lepage’s Stratford production of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus. But let’s get SNC-Lavalin off the stage. Whatever legal obstacles exist that prevent a federal Attorney General from acting within Canada’s version of the U.S. Foreign Corruption Prevention Act, they are a function of both Liberal and Conservative ad hoc bungling of anti-bribery regimes introduced first by the Harper Conservatives and later the Trudeau Liberals under pressure from the OECD. For details on this, see my recent commentary.
The AG’s authority to issue directives in specific prosecutions is clear: “The Attorney General may, after consulting the Director, issue directives respecting the initiation or conduct of prosecutions generally. Any such directives must be in writing and be published in the Canada Gazette.”
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