Editorial: The deeper the hole … the SNC-Lavalin affair gets messier

Two things are true of government. First, the larger it grows, the more opportunities arise for incompetence, incoherence or abuse of power. Second, the weaker the policies it embraces, the more likely the government must resort to delay, secrecy or deceit to support them. The more shovels, the deeper the hole.
There are few better examples than the SNC-Lavalin/Jody Wilson-Raybould affair.
For decades, the government has extended support to a major engineering firm, in the belief that picking ec