Corruption in Canada

Transparency International’s estimates of the perceptions of corruption in each country are drawn from a number of sources, including private, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and international 8. The resourcing and implementation of prevention, prosecution and other enforcement issues are very important, but not the primary focus of this paper. [...] In December 2016, former Laval mayor Gilles Vaillancourt plead guilty to a conspiracy to commit fraud, fraud and breach of trust as part of a system of corruption and collusion in which he collected a percentage of the construction and engineering contracts awarded by the city between 1996 and 2010. [...] If the wiretap evidence was as legally suspect as Nordheimer J. found, why didn’t the PPSC pursue the other available evidence before the trial began that would have supported the continuation of the prosecution, including the possibility of a plea agreement or a non-prosecution agreement with one of the original 42. [...] The changes in 2004 in the Canadian Criminal Code to expand the liability of corporations and other organizations provide a limited version of the failing to prevent corruption offence in jurisdictions like the UK. [...] The express intention of the Joint Committee on the Draft bribery Bill was to “change the culture in which taking a bribe is viewed as acceptable” and to “encourage anyone who is expected to act in good faith, 59.