According to the Globe and Mail,”The company’s status makes the murky affair they reported this week a black eye for Canadian business. Worse, the questions it raises – about whether money made it to the hands of a foreign official – underlines a weakness. Canada has a poor reputation for tackling bribery.”
Archive for the ‘Corruption’ Category
SNC-Lavalin’s murky affair shows need to tighten Canadian bribery law
March 29th, 2012 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Business Ethics, CorruptionAnother Ethical Breach-A “teaching moment for a Canadian Prime Minister
March 26th, 2012 by admin | 1 Comment | Filed in Corruption, Democracy“Both Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Industry Minister Christian Paradis have chosen to characterize the finding that the cabinet minister broke conflict of interest rules as a teaching moment”which according to the journalist who wrote this article“…raises the question of whether a federal cabinet minister should be expected to understand ethical issues such as conflict of interest – hardly rocket science – before he is appointed’!
Canadian accused of bribing cabinet minister in India is a test case for Canada’s foreign anti-corruption law
February 2nd, 2012 by admin | No Comments | Filed in CorruptionIn a Globe and Mail article today the journalists write”The RCMP have implicated a Canadian tech executive in an alleged bribery and bid-rigging scheme that involves prominent public figures in India at a time when outrage over corruption has paralyzed its Parliament. “
The Economics of Corruption
January 27th, 2012 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Corruption“The study of corruption has one glaring problem: the difficulty obtaining data upon which to base conclusions. Shawn A. Cole and Anh Tran add to the research literature of corruption by analyzing actual internal records of firms that paid bribes in an Asian developing country. The work, they report, provides “new estimates of corruption and study its relationship with organizational ownership.” Their book chapter, “Evidence from the Firm: A New Approach to Understanding Corruption”, will be included in the forthcoming second volume of International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption.”
What Impedes Oil and Gas Companies’ Transparency?
December 6th, 2011 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Business Ethics, CorruptionThis article examines what determines oil and gas companies’ transparency in reporting on business activities in host countries where they operate. It founnd that the index of transparency across host countries is lower the more corrupt the host country, the higher the number of nationalizations in that host country in the past, and the fewer the number of oil and gas companies operating in the host country.
The decision to “blow the whistle” involves complex interactions of worker’s ethical obligations to the public, employer and to himself.
November 20th, 2011 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Business Ethics, Case Studies, Corruption, Organizational EthicsAccording to this article from the Jerusalem Post,”Whistle-blowing is one of the most fascinating topics in business ethics. The decision to “blow the whistle” on perceived misconduct involves complex interactions of the worker’s ethical obligations to the public, to the employer and to himself. The potential whistle-blower can be a low-level or high-level employee.”
More on Canada’s Corruption Free Reputation!!!
September 17th, 2011 by admin | 2 Comments | Filed in CorruptionWhile Canadians are smugly convinced that corruption is not a Canadian issue the truth is quite different.Last week I posted a series of references to Canada’s facilitation of corruption overseas.My posting today hangs a lantern on corruption on our home front.Here we learn about its convergence among government industry and organized crime.Am I the only cynic? That was my reaction when I learned that SNC-Lavalin, one of Canada’s preeminent companies who has been globally implicated in corrupt activities and is now under police investigation has only this week decided to launch an ethics and compliance program!!!
Oh No -Not in Canada??? Mounties Raid SNC-Lavalin In Corruption Probe
September 3rd, 2011 by admin | 1 Comment | Filed in CorruptionFrom the Wall Street Journal we are learning that Canada has many miles to go in “solving” its issues and has only really begun to put teeth in its efforts.Another perspective and analysis on Canada’s mediocre efforts to seriously deal with corruption is provided here by Nevil Hunt.In contrast the Strikeman Elliot folks argue that the Government of Canada is adopting a more robust approach and may actually be beginning to turn the corner.
What do you say?
More Corruption in Canada?
September 3rd, 2011 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Corruption“What sort of punishment should be handed out to a Canadian cabinet minister who, judging by an auditor-general’s report, was found in clear breach of federal policies on accountability?”
Corruption in Canada- MiningWatch hails RCMP investigation of company under anti-corruption law
September 3rd, 2011 by admin | No Comments | Filed in CorruptionMiningWatch Canada and several other organizations said Monday they welcome news that Blackfire Exploration Ltd. is under investigation by the RCMP for allegedly paying bribes to a local politician in Mexico.
This satirical poem appears to be a commentary on corruption, currently a very hot topic in both China and India
September 3rd, 2011 by admin | No Comments | Filed in CorruptionHigh Peaks Pure Earth has translated a satirical poem written by a Tibetan blogger and posted on their TibetCul blog on May 4, 2011.
‘When will our corruption, worse than India’s, explode?’
September 3rd, 2011 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Corruption A new article
At a time when a section of Indian society is disillusioned with the slow pace of democratic development as compared to the China model, Chinese netizens are pointing out that Indians, at least, are empowered to change and criticise their government.
Scandals pile up in world of Canadian business
July 2nd, 2011 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Business Ethics, CorruptionOECD Working Group on Foreign Bribery has issued a Good Practice Guidance relating to anti-bribery.
June 12th, 2010 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Codes, Corruption, Organizational Ethics, Public Sector/GovernmentMy friend Donna Boehme is looking for feedback. She wrote to me as follows:
“You have probably seen the news that the OECD Working Group on Foreign Bribery has issued a Good Practice Guidance relating to anti-bribery compliance programs. Joe Murphy and I have been participating in this process, and Joe represented SCCE in the Working Group’s programs as a Consultative Partner; we both attended the Dec 9 launch of the GPG by OECD in Paris. We believe this standard actually offers a very useful template for all types of compliance and ethics programs. It has the enormous advantage of being the first truly international standard, since it has been signed off on by the 30 OECD countries plus 8 other signatories to the anti-bribery convention. In a sense it is the “global sentencing guidelines” in terms of its potential impact globally. I have attached our comment draft, which we are circulating broadly for review and comment, including to the OECD and US Sentencing Commission. I’d be interested in any thoughts/input on the draft. Please also feel free to share it with anyone you think might share the interest. We think this OECD Guidance has tremendous potential to expand what was started by the US Sentencing Commission further onto the global stage.
Cheers, Donna
Document is here:
Feeling pity for Bernie Madoff these days-don’t!!
June 7th, 2010 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Business Ethics, CorruptionIn this lengthy profile of Bernie Madoff in the New York Magazine ,we learn that he is unrepentant and in fact believes that some of his investors deserve what they got.
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