Alberta's Conflicts of Interest Act resulting from Redford having awarded the contract for a multibillion-dollar contract to conduct litigation against tobacco companies on behalf of the Government to a Calgary law firm for which her former husband was a partner while she was Minister of Justice. The report affirmed the concern that had been raised by the opposition that Mr. Wilkinson had not had necessary information available to him in reaching the decision, particularly his being refused access to an Alberta Justice briefing note that listed the law firm as the last of three that should be considered. On October 3, 2018, Iacobucci was appointed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to the position of special envoy for the controversial Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion. In February / March 2019 media reports noted that Iacobucci had been retained by SNC-Lavalin, concurrent with the company's controversial efforts to secure a Deferred Prosecution Agreement in order to avoid a trial for allegedly bribing Saadi Gaddafi to win engineering and construction contracts in Libya, prior to the fall of the Gaddafi regime in 2011. Currently, he is a member of the board of directors with COSTI Immigration Services and has been since 2009. Honorary degrees and other awards Iacobucci has received numerous awards, medals, honours and other recognition from across Canada and from organizations in the United States, the United Kingdom and Italy. He was made an Honorary Fellow of St John's College and Honorary Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyer in 1999. Iacobucci has been given honorary degrees from a number of renowned institutions of higher learning, including: University of Toronto (1989), University of British Columbia (1989), University of Ottawa (1995), University of Victoria (1996), Law Society of Upper Canada (2000), McGill University (2003), Università della Calabria (2003), University of Waterloo (2003), Queen's University (2005), York University (2005), University of Trinity College in the University of Toronto (2005), McMaster University (2008), University of Western Ontario (2009), Lakehead University (2014), Victoria University in the University of Toronto (2015), Cape Breton University (2016), Ryerson University (2017), and University of Ontario Institute of Technology (2018). He has been honoured by several prominent Italian/Italian-Canadian entities for his contributions to the community. The Confratellanza Italo-Canadese presented him with the Italo-Canadian of the Year Award in 1985. In the same year, he was named Man of the Year by the Canadian-Italian Business and Professional Association of Toronto. The