TAXPAYER FUNDED BRIBES AT SNC-LAVALIN

  Export Development Canada has hired outside legal counsel to review some of its dealings with SNC-Lavalin. The review comes after a company insider told CBC News the engineering giant secured billions in loans from the Crown agency over the years, some of which he alleges was intended to pay bribes.
  The insider, who worked on several large projects funded by EDC, claims it was an "open secret" within SNC-Lavalin that "technical fees" listed in budget proposals included cash to be used as bribes to secure international contracts.
  Those line items could total millions of dollars. The insider says EDC's internal due diligence policies should have detected something was going on.