Snc-lavalin flap

OTTAWA — The spouse of Canada’s ambassador to Libya worked for a Canadian engineering firm on major projects in the North African country while the west was calling for Moammar Gadhafi’s ouster, the CBC said Thursday.

Snc-lavalin earlier sacked two executives linked to a failed plot to smuggle one of Gadhafi’s sons into Mexico.

Edis Zagorac, the husband of Canadian envoy Sandra Mccardell, was hired to work as part of a military-civilian engineering unit created by Snc-lavalin Gadhafi that was tasked with building a prison and other projects, according to documents obtained by the CBC.

The development led Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird last month to order a review of Canada’s policies on companies doing work for foreign militaries, the CBC reported.