> Yet the executives are escaping prosecution because the company employs so many people. The DPA doesn't prevent criminal proceedings against individual execu

> Yet the executives are escaping prosecution because the company employs so many people. The DPA doesn't prevent criminal proceedings against individual executives, in fact the entire point of it is to focus the punishment on those that made and oversaw the criminal decision making, rather than the company as a whole, which would unduly punish innocent employees and shareholders. In the case of SNC-Lavalin's conduct in Libya, alongside the criminal case against the company itself, at least one VP was also criminally charged. Subsequently those charges were dropped due to delays (nothing to do with a DPA, which by the way still hasn't happened): https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/episode-430-snc-lavalin-in-court-revisionist-oscars-elliott-abrams-google-built-cities-rupaul-and-more-1.5027926/why-quebec-lawyers-are-struggling-to-prosecute-former-snc-lavalin-executives-1.5027950 https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/episode-430-snc-lavalin-in-cou... I'm not going to advocate for SNC-Lavalin, they're slimy and have been for decades, but the reason the PM pressured for a DPA was so that they didn't incur the automatic penalty of not being able to bid on government contracts, which if applied was thought to be enough to bankrupt the company or at least cause them to move out of Canada.