In the last week, the Liberal government have been arguing strongly that their actions on SNC-Lavalin were motivated solely by a desire to protect jobs. “We are always going to stand up for good jobs,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said at a Monday press conference in P.E.I. The “national economic interests” measure is quite new to the Criminal Code and was introduced by Trudeau’s own government. If Trudeau had been talking about SNC-Lavalin job losses to Wilson-Raybould the justice minister, nothing unseemly would have been done. It could also be argued that trying to protect jobs isn’t an economic interest so much as a social one.

Source: National Post March 06, 2019 17:48 UTC