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We now know how the case ended, and clearly SNC Lavalin has not gone up in flames in spite of failing to obtain a DPA.  They have not relocated, they have not received "the death penalty" of being barred from government contracts for 10 years, they have not laid off 9000 employees or however many it was that Gerald Butts told us would lose their jobs if the prosecution continued.

clearly, you don't know what you're talking about. The unsettled impact on operations and investor confidence was significant - profit forecasts were revised 3 times in 2019; there was division restructuring and the judicial targeted construction division effectively stopped bidding on new contracts. Most certainly being banned from bidding on federal contracts would have had an impact on jobs. As a renowned international company, the option to shift 'some degree of operations' elsewhere was there... if the contract bid ban was impacting enough. It is somewhat telling that the plea-bargain ensures that SNC-L won't be banned from contract bidding... now why would PPSC include that lil' nugget, hey member kimmy?

First and foremost the outcome of all of this is proof that the PMO interference in the prosecution was completely unnecessary.  Trying to spin it as vindication for the PMO's shenanigans is absurd.

talk about YOUR SPIN! Wildly spinning the PPSC offered plea-bargain into your implication that "no undue pressure towards St. Jody" was warranted! 

And, of course, nobody really thought 9000 people would lose their jobs.  Even the worst case was just some empty office space in Papineau. Those government contracts would continue without SNC, and the companies that won those contracts would need workers and suppliers.

What this was really about was Quebec votes.  "We can have the best policy in the world, but we need to be re-elected,"  as PMO henchman Mathieu Bouchard put it. He said out loud the part you're supposed to not say out loud.

I'll cut you some slack as its clear your limited job exposure/experience... your widget making cubicle world... hasn't given you an appreciation of what it might have meant for thousands of SNC-L employees to lose their jobs. To simply say that those employees could just get jobs with other bidding companies, shows you have no real grounding in the realities of large corporations operations and workforce management... notwithstanding said jobs could be hundreds-to-thousands of miles away. No biggee, hey member kimmy!