Gov’t Offers Lavalin A Deal

SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. yesterday became the first corporation in Canada to be offered an out-of-court settlement under a provision cabinet wrote into the Criminal Code in 2018. Critics had denounced so-called “deferred prosecution agreements” as a get-out-of-jail card: “Ordinary Canadians would not have access to this type of plea bargain.”

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