SNC is not at fault for the dizzying effects of its lobbying efforts; that lies solely with the PM, the PMO and senior government officials
The Liberal-dominated justice committee did its best this week, slamming shut the door on any further hearings, least of all God forbid recalling the deposed attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould.
Now, I am no lawyer but the Criminal Code section on DPAs, called “remediation agreements” in Canada, is pretty clear. SNC-Lavalin is, unhappily, charged with one count of fraud under the Criminal Code and one count of bribing a foreign public official under paragraph 3 of the Corruption of Foreign Officials Act.
I note that in her recent decision, wherein she struck down SNC’s application for judicial review of the Roussel/Wilson-Raybould decision, Federal Court Judge Catherine Kane appeared to agree with my feeble analysis, writing that when the Corruption of Foreign Officials Act is involved, “as in this case, the prosecutor is not to consider the national economic interest when forming an opinion that a remediation agreement is in the public interest.
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