At a town hall meeting in Ashcroft, B.C. in July, Green Party leader Elizabeth May suggested that if SNC-Lavalin is found guilty on corruption and fraud charges, the Quebec-based engineering giant should face a court order to perform “community service” by repairing water infrastructure on reserves.
Veteran northern Ontario NDP MP Charlie Angus, his party’s ethics critic, released a statement late last week saying he was “appalled and disappointed”by May’s proposal. He accused Greens of seeking to “turn over water infrastructure contracts on reserve” to a corporation facing serious charges.
Manitoba MP Niki Ashton, whose riding includes two First Nations under boil-water advisories, told the Winnipeg Free Press in a statement that May’s idea “opens the door to privatizing water.”
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