SNC-Lavalin hired diplomat’s spouse for Gadhafi project: Ambassador to Libya’s husband worked on controversial prison @ CBC
The husband of Canada’s ambassador to Libya was hired by SNC-Lavalin to work as part of the Montreal-based company’s joint project with the Gadhafi regime, CBC News has learned.
The discovery led Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird to request a review last month into the potential conflict of interest and to re-examine the Canadian government’s policies on companies doing work for foreign militaries.
Edis Zagorac, the spouse of Canada’s ambassador to Libya, Sandra McCardell, was hired to work as part of a military-civilian engineering unit that SNC-Lavalin created with the dictatorship of Moammar Gadhafi, according to documents obtained by CBC News.
The documents show Zagorac listed as leading a joint project between SNC-Lavalin and “The Corps of Engineers of Libya.” (…)
