SNC Lavalin confirms it's building jail in Libya

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Source: CBC News

SNC-Lavalin has confirmed it has a contract to build a detention centre in Libya, a country currently gripped by violence as pro-democracy protesters clash with hardline government forces.

The Montreal-based engineering giant has said the facility will be the "first to be built according to international human rights standards."

"We think this is an important step forward for this country and an opportunity for us as a company to share values that we think are essential to all citizens of the world," Leslie Quinton, the company's vice-president of global communications said in an email Thursday.

Quinton denied reports that SNC-Lavalin was concealing the project.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/02/24/snc-lavalin-prison022411.html

[chollybocker]

1. SNC-Lavalin is one of the Cdn co's that donate to the US Chamber of Commerce.

Just sayin'.

[kenny blankenship]

2. Anything for a dollar (Canadian)

"We are building the world's first UNCHR guidelines compliant torture chamber. We've regularly donated both to Amnesty International and Aung San Suu Kyi's legal defense fund. We feel that positions our global brand as the humane alternative to Halliburton."