As a result of the increased scrutiny, we are now aware of many of the more sordid details of the alleged bribery, at the centre of this burgeoning scandal. According to media reports, back in 2008, Saadi Gaddafi, the third son of the late Libyan President, came to Canada as a guest of SNC-Lavalin. The Quebec based engineering corporation was seeking to curry favour with Gaddafi the younger in order to land lucrative construction contracts in Libya worth millions of dollars.

Hired to protect Saadi during his stay was GardaWorld, but the services actually provided went far beyond close-in protection. It is alleged that Garda submitted bills to SNC-Lavalin totaling approximately $30,000 for debauchery ranging from high-class escorts, to tickets for a Spice Girls concert.

Democracy Watch has called for a probe the role of every person named by
former justice minister and attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould in
her testimony to the Commons justice committee last week.

Even though Canada’s economy appeared to have a strong performance in
2017, a closer at the data is showing that inequality increased and
wages stagnated for working families.

While the Canadian economy boomed with roughly 3% GDP growth in 2017, new data from Statistics Canada shows most of the gains went straight to the top 10% while incomes for average families barely budged.

“Household spending on cannabis totalled $5.9 billion (in nominal terms)
in the fourth quarter, with illegal cannabis accounting for $4.7
billion and legal cannabis $1.2 billion,” reads a Statistics Canada summary of the data.