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SNC-Lavalin, the company that landed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in trouble with the ethics commissioner, has been awarded more than 100 government contracts since the controversy.
According to a database from Open Government, SNC-Lavalin received 142 government contracts with a combined worth of about $25 million between January 2019 and June 2020.
Aaron Wudrick, the federal director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, said he was shocked SNC-Lavalin was continuing to receive government contracts.
“I think from SNC-Lavalin’s standpoint these are not giant contracts,” said Wudrick. “They often deal with contracts that are much larger, so this is small potatoes for them. But I think a lot of Canadians would be surprised to know they are active in bidding after the seriousness of what happened last year.”
In August of last year, Mario Dion, the ethics commissioner, found Trudeau guilty of breaching ethic rules by trying to persuade his attorney general to give SNC-Lavalin a deferred prosecution agreement in relation to criminal charges it was facing.
... The RCMP have been investigating the possibility that someone in the Trudeau government obstructed justice in the SNC-Lavalin case.
The news was revealed in a bombshell report by the Globe and Mail issued less than 12 hours before Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was to visit Rideau Hall and kick off the 2019 election.
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