SNC LAVALIN OFFERED GET-OUT-OF-JAIL CARD

 The Liberal government has given SNC-Lavalin its “get-out-of-jail-free” card.

Blacklock’s Reporter says the company on Thursday became the first corporation in Canada to be offered an out-of-court settlement under a provision cabinet wrote into the Criminal Code in 2018.

The engineering firm, including two former executives, were charged with forgery and conspiracy to defraud taxpayers over a $128 million contract on Montréal’s Jacques Cartier Bridge.

The settlement would allow SNC-Lavalin to pay a fine in exchange for “voluntary disclosure of wrongdoing.”