SNC-Lavalin

Former SNC-Lavalin executive Sami Bebawi was sentenced to eight years and six months in prison on Friday, January 10, 2020, wrapping up the last of the criminal cases brought against the engineering giant and its former employees involved in fraud and corruption in Libya.

Former SNC-Lavalin executive Sami Bebawi tarnished Canada's reputation and helped perpetuate the corrupt dictatorial regime of Moammar Gadhafi in Libya, federal prosecutor Anne-Marie Manoukian said on Thursday, December 19, 2019, as she asked that he be sentenced to nine years in prison.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government might have acted differently had it known the criminal case against SNC-Lavalin would be resolved without crippling the company or throwing thousands of its employees out of work.

Montreal-based engineering and construction company SNC-Lavalin cops to fraud, ducks corruption charge in Libya deal.

Former SNC-Lavalin executive, Sami Bebawi, was found guilty on Sunday, December 15, 2019, of paying off foreign officials and pocketing millions as he worked to secure contracts for the Canadian engineering company in Libya.

Summing up six weeks of testimony at the trial of a former SNC-Lavalin executive accused of fraud and corruption, a prosecutor told jurors on Monday, December 9, 2019, that greed lies at the root of the accusations.

Both the Liberal and Conservative leaders faced attacks on Thursday, October 3, 2019, that target the cores of their characters, as each accused the other of trying to distract voters from his record.

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau said on Thursday, September 26, 2019, the political instability in the United States and Britain serves as a warning to Canadian voters to avoid the pull of divisive populism that he accuses his Conservative opponents of fostering.

The Liberals and New Democrats are both making promises that would need some collaboration with the provinces to become reality, at a time when powerful premiers have made it clear they see a relationship with Ottawa that is headed in a very different direction.

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau headed on Wednesday, September 11, 2019, to what he calls his "second home" in British Columbia for his first event of the 2019 election campaign — a province full of both opportunity and peril for the governing party.

An election campaign sure to feature plenty of pocketbook promises got underway amid deeper questions of ethics and values on Wednesday, September 11, 2019, as federal leaders challenged Canadians to consider the kind of country they want to vote for 40 days from now.

“We gave out the largest and most expansive waiver of cabinet confidence in Canada’s history,” Trudeau said, then stopped. For several seconds, no one spoke.

Jane Philpott is standing by the pledge she made as a Liberal candidate to support access to abortion despite her beliefs, but accuses her former party of playing politics with a deeply personal issue.

Cries of a coverup competed with claims of pre-election, hyper-partisan excess on Wednesday, August 21, 2019, after Liberal MPs blocked an opposition attempt to hold hearings on ethics commissioner Mario Dion's scathing report into Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's handling of the SNC-Lavalin affair.

Six Liberal MPs will be the ones to decide whether the federal ethics watchdog will speak publicly about his scathing report on how Prime Minister Justin Trudeau handled the SNC-Lavalin affair.