The Liberal government has given SNC-Lavalin its “get-out-of-jail-free” card.
Blacklock’s Reporter says the company on Thursday became the first corporation in Canada to be offered an out-of-court settlement under a provision cabinet wrote into the Criminal Code in 2018.
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