"When was the mayor's office informed, prior to the council meeting of March 6, [2019] that SNC-Lavalin had failed to meet the technical score?" Diane Deans and several others asked if the proponents had all met the minimum technical score of 70 per cent, they were told they weren't allowed to know. The city's technical evaluation team said SNC-Lavalin's bid was "a poor technical submission" and should be thrown out. (CBC)That day Watson and most of council voted to approve the three projects, totalling about $4.66 billion in deals. In August, after the city had admitted that SNC-Lavalin hadn't hit that technical bar, CBC asked the mayor whether he knew the company didn't meet the technical threshold.

Source: CBC News March 10, 2020 12:38 UTC