The engineering and project management company agreed with Quebec prosecutors to pay $29.6 million over three years to settle criminal bribery charges. Wilson-Raybould refused to pursue a remediation agreement with the company, and claimed this was why she was ousted from the portfolio, though Trudeau denied the allegations. “It’s like it sat dormant because no one wanted to touch it because it seemed like political kryptonite,” Quaid said. Four of its executives still face corruption and bribery charges, but the company co-operated with investigators and signed remediation agreement shortly after being charged in September 2022. “That’s always been one of the worries about this … It’s not a guilty plea or it’s not a conviction, it’s a remediation agreement,” Quaid said.
