When ethics commissioner Mario Dion published a scathing report this week on Justin Trudeau’s conduct in the SNC-Lavalin affair, his exhaustive account of events offered an inside look at how a Canadian corporation, on the heels of a corruption scandal, helped convince the Prime Minister’s Office that the best way forward was a new law that would allow the company to escape any charges.
A made-in-Canada deferred prosecution agreement regime was SNC-Lavalin’s idea, and the company even pitched the finance minister’s office, early in 2018, on getting it done by slipping the proposal into a budget bill—a matter of days after the conclusion of a public consultation packed with DPA-friendly submissions.
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