Lavalin

Allegations of bribery go back to the late Bernard Lamarre, former head of Lavalin Inc. (now SNC-Lavalin), who boasted to Maclean's in 1991 that whenever he did business in the Third World, he never handed out bribes without first demanding a receipt.

And it’s true that SNC-Lavalin’s largest shareholder is the Quebec public-service pension fund, whose pet project is a main construction contractor is SNC-Lavalin.

In 2019, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau denied an incendiary allegation that his office pressured former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould to help SNC-Lavalin avoid a criminal prosecution.

Last year, SNC-Lavalin was ordered to pay Quebec nearly $30 million to settle criminal bribery charges stemming from bridge work in Montreal.

It also freed SNC-Lavalin from the damaging prospect of a ban on federal contract bidding.

MONTREAL — SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. is restructuring its money-losing resources business with a plan to sell off or shut down the non-profitable parts and fold the remnants into its engineering services division.

SNC-Lavalin Group Inc.’s latest financial results were hurt by COVID-19’s impact on productivity at some of its projects as well as an unexpectedly expensive arbitration decision.

SNC-Lavalin Group on Friday posted a third-quarter loss on lower revenues.

The legal opinion that compelled city executives to keep SNC-Lavalin alive in the bidding war for the Trillium Line expansion is being kept under lock and key as newly released documents raise more questions about the winning company’s project proposal.

A division of SNC-Lavalin Inc. admitted Wednesday it committed a crime while operating in Libya — putting an end to a case at the Montreal courthouse that for months caused headaches for the federal Liberal government.

Aecon mainly deploys in-house managers and tradespeople on its projects in a "self-performing" model that allows more control, in contrast to the general contracting approach taken by engineering and construction giants such as SNC-Lavalin.

A man walks past the headquarters of SNC-Lavalin in Montreal on November 6, 2014.

And so we’ve got some really good ideas, moving forward some good expert opinion,” said Lametti, who reiterated that he had never felt any undue pressure from the prime minister, or any member of his office or team, to intervene in the SNC-Lavalin case.

And with a remediation agreement, SNC-Lavalin would still be able to bid on federal government contracts.

Asked if SNC-Lavalin was part of the engagement process, Qualtrough insisted she didn’t know.

Butts, who was principal secretary to Trudeau before he resigned as part of the SNC-Lavalin affair, tweeted Monday.

But Wayne Long, one of two Liberal MPs to vote in favour of a public inquiry into the SNC-Lavalin controversy, said he wants the two to stay in caucus.

Chin told a staff member of Wilson-Raybould’s that the PPSC told SNC-Lavalin it cannot enter a DPA.

Conservatives call on Prime Minister to preserve records in SNC-Lavalin matter – The Morinville NewsMorinvilleOnline.

Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion said Trudeau violated the Conflict of Interest Act by improperly pressuring then-justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould to halt the criminal prosecution of Montreal engineering giant SNC-Lavalin.