The ongoing Liberal Party self-evisceration has the secondary level fascination for a U.S. observer of watching a slow-motion train wreck.
The Liberal Party implosion was prompted by senior Liberals efforts to alleviate potential legal or economic penalties against iconic, Quebec megacorporation SNC-Lavalin. Legal action contemplated by the Canadian juridical system could have resulted in harsh penalties against senior SNC-Lavalin leadership and prohibition of the firm from bidding on federal contracts for 10 years—not a death blow, but very heavy restrictions for having reportedly bribed Qadhafi-era Libyan officials to award them contracts.
