Against that backdrop, Saskatchewan taxpayers and businesses, like all Canadian taxpayers, were paying into the federal equalization program. The cost to the federal government would be about a third of what Saskatchewan taxpayers were forwarding to the equalization program. Quebec jobs were apparently worth the brazenness the former attorney general so deliberately and unflappably testified to before the Commons justice committee. Quebec jobs were apparently worth the brazenness the former attorney general so deliberately and unflappably testified toBut never mind this modest ask. What the prime minister was prepared to do to save SNC-Lavalin is staggering in its own right.

Source: National Post March 07, 2019 19:07 UTC