SNC-Lavalin tops Alberta oil

Re: Trudeau follows grubby path, John Ivison, Feb. 13, and other articles on SNC-Lavalin Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his governing federal Liberals have clearly taken the position that the interests of Montreal-based SNC-Lavalin are paramount, superseding, perhaps, the intent of constitutional rule of law, as well as perhaps the interests of certain other regions of Canada, and perhaps even Canada as a nation.

The prime minister has cast his lot with a company with a remarkably spotty history of illegality. And on behalf of what? Corporate profits? A few thousand jobs in Quebec? Or, more to the point, maybe a few tens of thousands of votes in Quebec?

What about Alberta? What about the fully legitimate operations of fully legitimate, fully legal, energy companies operating there?

What about the tens and tens of thousands of jobs — and lives — that have been decimated in that province, simply because Alberta oil is “dirty” — and that bitumen extraction, refinement, delivery and usage is yesterday’s news?

Is Alberta oil somehow “dirtier” than Lavalin?

Go ahead, Canada. Vote for Justin Trudeau again. Vote for his unending pandering to a single province at the expense of a nation. Just don’t complain when you get what you deserve. Al Coates, Cambridge, Ont.