Bagnall: Is SNC-Lavalin technically incompetent? Hardly — but here's what the city needs to explain

It’s difficult to know which is more bizarre — the idea that SNC-Lavalin isn’t qualified technically to manage a piece of the second stage of the city’s light rail transit project, or that City of Ottawa officials won’t offer a definitive statement that it is.
When the city revealed two months ago that TransitNEXT — a unit of SNC-Lavalin — was its preferred bidder for managing the $1.6-billion extension of the Trillium Line to the airport and beyond, few