SNC-Lavalin controversy raises risk of ‘two-tier’ Canadian justice system – iPolitics
“SNC-Lavalin is a company that employs 9,000 Canadians across this country,” the prime minister said at his failed effort Thursday to explain his actions and shut down the scandal. “They create many thousands of spinoff jobs and peripheral industries. They directly or indirectly put food on the table for countless families as one of Canada’s major employers … The context is a tough one, with potential job losses in the thousands.”
There are two problems with this line. There’s no reasonable argument that the 9,000 jobs purportedly at risk at SNC-Lavalin are actually threatened, and apparently no independent analysis of those claims.
And even if some jobs maybe at risk, accepting employment as a consideration in these kinds of cases means that Canada’s criminal justice system will in future be stymied in efforts to go after corporate crime of any kind, from corruption to money laundering, if somehow jobs are at stake. #cdnpoli