SNC-Lavalin testimony indicates a line was crossed, opposition parties say
Citing unnamed sources, The Globe and Mail reported on Feb. 7 that
Trudeau’s office pressed Wilson-Raybould to drop a criminal prosecution
against SNC-Lavalin when she was attorney general. It was alleged that
the PMO wanted Wilson-Raybould to instruct federal prosecutors to change
course and pursue a remediation agreement rather than criminal
prosecution in the corruption and fraud case against the Quebec
engineering and construction giant. This is something she had the
ability to do in that role, but she did not, despite several meetings
and conversations on the matter after federal prosecutors decided to
carry on with the criminal case.