Foreign Affairs committee  Yes.

Foreign Affairs committee  With respect to your question about going from sixth place to tenth place, I was aware of the change in the status. There are a couple of factors that are at play there. It's a corruption perception index, so it's what level of corruption is perceived. In part, more enforcement i

Foreign Affairs committee  Norway and Sweden might be countries that are in front of Canada at the present time. Transparency International is the actual operator of the corruption perception index. The information is available on their website. It goes back several years. They've changed the way the tool

Foreign Affairs committee  It's an NGO, a non-governmental organization.

Foreign Affairs committee  When I first looked at this problem early in 2005, what I noticed was the areas that were mentioned in my opening remarks in terms of activities, so it's where those activities occur, where extractive industries operate, where there's developmental assistance, where there's disas

Foreign Affairs committee  In my examination of the risk factors, I did not find that it was the type of government that was in place. I've written a paper that says you could look at a variety of factors, including the type of government, the education system, the health care system, the social assistance

Foreign Affairs committee  It's not in a list format. It's in paper format as a document, but that's not a problem.

Foreign Affairs committee  Generally, the answer to your question is yes, I find they are respectful. They are interested. The anti-corruption movement globally has been gaining momentum. There's quite a bit of interest from other countries in looking to Canada for assistance in their anti-corruption enfor

Foreign Affairs committee  My own experience is that yes, China is interested in the global anti-corruption movement. For a number of years China has chaired the International Association of Anti-Corruption Authorities, which is an association with affiliations to the United Nations' UNODC. It has provided

Foreign Affairs committee  There are not pre-established relationships with all countries. However, in some of the countries that you've mentioned there are existing relationships between investigators on the RCMP side and investigators in those foreign countries. If there wasn't an existing relationship,

Foreign Affairs committee  October 2, 2007.

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes.

Foreign Affairs committee  I don't know that there's a problem with transparency in terms of Canadian companies and how they are operating or why they would be hesitant to join this particular initiative. A number of organizations are pursuing anti-corruption on a global or regional basis, with internatio

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm not sure how businesses might analyze it. Would they say that on the one hand this is a very good thing to do and we should do it? Or would they, on the other hand, wonder whether, if they're overly transparent, they would still have a competitive edge. Would that be lost in

Foreign Affairs committee  I wouldn't be in a good position to comment with respect to unspecified legislation that hasn't been proposed, nor am I in a good position to propose legislation with respect to how Canadian companies are operating abroad. We are encouraging Canadian companies to have good corpo