One recent opinion poll had the Canadian prime minister with a lower approval rating than Donald Trump. How did this happen?
And he was far and away the winner in our own extremely unscientific poll that askedThen–Liberal MP Trudeau at a weigh-in for a charity boxing event in 2012ongoing scandal involving a Canadian company called SNC-Lavalin
, a huge engineering corporation that has been charged with corruption and fraud. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has accused the company of attempting to pay $40 million in bribes to officials in the late Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi's government over the course of a decade, resulting in about $100 million in contracts for the company.
The way this got Trudeau in trouble is complicated, but here's the short version: If convicted, SNC-Lavalin, which employs 9,000 people in Canada,from taking on government contracts for a decade. Last year, it just so happens, the company won a contract to help build a new public transit system in Montreal. In response to the charges, SNC-Lavalin all but threatened to pack up and leave the country altogether, taking its jobs with it, if the company was taken to court.
Spoiler: Prosecutors opted not to use the mechanism and moved forward with the case against SNC-Lavalin. Jody Wilson-Raybould, Trudeau's attorney general slash justice minister, stood by that decision, even though she could have overridden them and put a halt to the proceedings.
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