The Saga of SNC-Lavalin: Quebec Inc. and the Canadian State
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1907 ... October 11, 2019
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The Saga of SNC-Lavalin: Quebec Inc. and the Canadian State
Pierre Beaudet
For several months now the SNC-Lavalin saga has continued to unfold, although it has been displaced somewhat in the current election campaign. You will recall the small storm that arose when star cabinet ministers in the Trudeau government, Jane Philpott and Jody Wilson-Raybould in particular, resigned over the refusal to prosecute some shady "cases." Trudeau, who has presented himself as "cleaner than clean," took a drubbing. Even more, Jody Wilson-Raybould’s departure appeared as a monumental slap in the face to the indigenous peoples who had heard the fine promises and crocodile tears of the Liberals.
Slightly overlooked in Quebec, this "affair" was seized on more by the media and enthusiasts of the second national sport of so-called English Canada: Quebec bashing. This is a longstanding campaign that began at the very birth of Canada, when the "French Canadians" were portrayed as an uneducated, unruly and worse yet, Catholic population; unacceptable in the eyes of the Canadian elite, very much influenced by the... Orange (racist and colonialist) circles. When the Canadian government and its new Mounted Police force crushed the Métis and assassinated Louis Riel in 1885, they celebrated in Ottawa while in Montréal half the adult population was protesting in the streets.