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Did you notice why SNC-Lavalin withdrew from the bidding on these projects? It was due to a ... shift in its global corporate strategy to not participate in any fixed-price projects


On Wednesday, the BC government sent out a media release the updated shortlists updated for Broadway Subway and Pattullo Bridge projects on the lower mainland

Conceptual drawing to replace the Pattullo Bridge
The release stated that they had ... revised the list of pre-qualified bidding teams that have been invited to participate in the request for proposals (RFP) stage to design, build and finance the Broadway Subway project and the Pattullo Bridge Replacement project.

And the reason for this??  The darlings of Trudeau’s backyard in Quebec of course – SNC-Lavalin.

The shortlists were revised after SNC-Lavalin withdrew from the procurement process for both projects due to a shift in its global corporate strategy to not participate in any fixed-price projects”.

SNC-Lavalin has received nothing but break after break from Liberal governments, and why? Because when they are in power, the Liberals need every seat in Quebec to remain there.

No matter Trudeau has said those several thousand jobs of SNC-Lavalin needing to be protected, while failing dismally as close to 100,00 jobs were lost in western Canada’s oil and resource sector, he knows the west doesn’t elect a majority of Liberal MPs, so those jobs are expendable.

BUT HERE’S THE KICKER!

Did you notice why SNC-Lavalin withdrew from the bidding on these projects?  It was due to ... a shift in its global corporate strategy to not participate in any fixed-price projects.

What does that say to you, because I know what it does to me?

It says they’re happy to bid on projects where they can just keep adding to costs when they’ve under-bid ... but where they have to give a static price?  Nope, not a chance.

Yes, these darling of Quebec seem to lead quite the entitled life ... meantime the west continues to send billions of dollars to Quebec by way of transfer payments, thanks to the current, and former, Liberal governments.

I hope you’ll keep that in mind on October 21st.

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