It means a lot to a certain class of business people and financiers but news that SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. will reduce the size of its worldwide workforce by 10 per cent leaves most Canadians saying: “Who are these guys again?” Think of SNC Lavalin as the company that does the work for a mining company and maybe finances them too. It is really reassuring to ordinary readers to find that Wikipedia prefaces its description of what the company does with a warning that the article may be “too technical” for most. In any case, the actual number of jobs lost is 4,000 and there is no hint in the Globe and Mail or other stories as to just where those jobs might be. Of course we have a lot of mining in Canada.
