Conrad Black glosses over some aspects of the SNC-Lavelin scandal

See the webpage at: https://nationalpost.com/opinion/conrad-black-the-snc-lavalin-affair-is-overblown-but-the-liberals-still-bungled-it

My Comment:

I don't like disagreeing with Mr. Black, because he is usually right and his analysis is astute, as some of his comments are here, but I take exception to his characterizing this issue as if it resembled merely a plea-bargaining measure, similar to the prosecution and court, reducing the usual sentence, or being lenient with ordinary persons accused of criminal offences, because they saved the state money by pleading guilty and admitting their guilt and owning up to their bad behaviour, or  other benefits to the state. 

However, that is not the case with granting such favours or leniency to a giant corporation that makes and has made huge contributions to the political party in power.  The stink of that overweighs other considerations.

And to say that "if there was wrong-doing, it was by executives, not by the company itself, and the executives can be prosecuted and replaced, and the company drives on" is too cute, especially when the executives are the brain of the corporate entity (except, of course for the contributions of the board of directors) and in a criminal sense, are the corporation. 

The executives and the corporation, as a corporate person, are all guilty when the corporation has been involved in a criminal offence directed by the executive.  On the issue of a Canadian corporation using bribery to gain business in a foreign jurisdiction built on corruption, criminality and bribery, that is a different matter and could be resolved as Mr. Black describes. 

The legislation could have honestly made that an exception to Canada's law, but it did not.  The Liberals could have snuck that through Parliament as they did the rest of the amendment.