Former McGill hospital manager pleads guilty

MONTREAL — A former manager at the McGill University Health Centre pleaded guilty Monday to accepting a $10-million bribe in return for helping engineering firm SNC-Lavalin win the contract to build a major Montreal hospital and research centre. Yanai Elbaz also pleaded guilty to four other charges including influence peddling, breach of trust and money laundering. Elbaz, who was a highlevel aide to the late hospital CEO Arthur Porter, was handcuffed and transported to a detention facility. Quebec’s anti-corruption unit accused Porter of accepting a $22.5-million bribe in connection with SNC-Lavalin winning the $1.3-billion contract to build the McGill centre.