Lilley: Wernick said there was no “undue pressure” and no “inappropriate pressure” but didn’t deny there was pressure for the former attorney general to intervene and stop SNC-Lavalin from facing prosecution.
“That the board of the company had to look at its options. Its share price had tanked and the board had fiduciary responsibilities to the company to take decisions about its future, close, sell,” Wernick said.
“That would have consequences for 9,000 Canadians, plus the suppliers, plus the pensioners, plus all the communities in which the company is active.”
Nothing like telling the attorney general that if she goes ahead with the criminal prosecution of a company that is alleged to have bribed officials in Libya to the tune of $48 million and defrauded the country of $130 million that she could kill jobs.
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