Canada is currently embroiled in a scandal in which the government has been credibly accused of pressuring its own attorney general to allow negotiation of a favourable deal with a Montreal-based global engineering firm. The deal is of the type that includes multi-million dollar bribes to Libyan officials in exchange for construction contracts.
Those who debate simply the legality, or even the morality, of this practice are missing the point. In the words of Talleyrand: “It is more than a crime. It is a mistake.”
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