William Watson: Of course taxpayers will pay dearly for the Liberals’ SNC scandal fpcomment
The SNC Lavalin affair involves all sorts of important principles, which this newspaper’s columnists have dissected in detail over the last month. If, as maybe befits an economist, I could be more crass, what do you suppose it’s all going to cost us? The one thing we know is it won’t be nothing.
Regarding adjudication, a DPA would also save both the government and the company the costs of a trial. A lot of the costs in the SNC-Lavalin case are already sunk, since the charges were brought in 2015. That doesn’t mean big costs aren’t still to come for both sides. I hope those deciding against a DPA had empathy with taxpayers and not just needy lawyers. Justice is obviously important and only a court delivers definitive justice.
Or will the re-education have to be more widespread? The PM hinted the real problems are — in that all-purpose 21st-century slur —“systemic.” Thus he would take outside advice on “the operating policies and practices across cabinet, the public service and political staff as they relate specifically to judicial matters but also more general .”
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