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Another rundown from Macleans showing how the corruption actually extends farther than today's news (and tonight's notables) suggest.
https://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/canada-the-show/
Basically as I understand it:
>SNC-Lavalin – major engineering firm in Montreal – lots of jobs – lots of work for federal government
>SNC about to be charged for major fraud and bribery offences
>SNC does major lobbying with high-level government officials
>SNC has coincidentally illegally donated $100k to the governing Liberal party (who promised to pay it back after the illegal donations were caught)
>Government changes the Criminal Code to permit "Deferred Prosecution Agreements" so that "If a company is facing fraud or bribery charges, it may negotiate with a prosecutor to pay a hefty fine instead of going to trial."
>Government hides the new legislation within a 385-page omnibus budget bill
All legal (other than the illegal campaign donations) but shady AF.
>SNC case comes to trial where they expect their heavily lobbied Criminal Code provisions to come into effect so they can basically pay the hush money and make it go away
>Attorney-General declines to exercise the new provisions for that case
>SNC and major political heavy hitters say "WTF??"
>Political interference from Prime Minister's office (PMO) to AG, saying WTF??
>AG resigns
That's what gets us to where we are now, with the "he said/she said" between PMO and AG as to whether there was inappropriate interference from PMO or not. But there was already plenty of nefarious (if legal) fuckery before then.