Hassan M. Ahmad is a Toronto-based lawyer and doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law. His research focuses on transnational human rights claims against corporate actors.
Canadian media outlets and water coolers alike were abuzz recently about revelations that the prime minister’s office attempted to inhibit former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould from prosecuting Canadian mega-corporation SNC-Lavalin after the company had allegedly bribed public officials abroad.