Foreign Affairs committee  At what stage of your business transaction would that be?

Foreign Affairs committee  I think what you're describing is perhaps outside the area of activity where we would be involved. That sounds like it's in advance of the business transaction. That's perhaps the domain of some other government department, perhaps DFAIT and the trade commissioners or Export Deve

Foreign Affairs committee  Do you mean the prevalence in terms of what Canadians see or the prevalence in terms of what might be seen globally by other—

Foreign Affairs committee  My understanding is that it can be quite prevalent. I don't have an actual measurement. Developing countries are at higher risk. Their public officials might not be paid enough and then are looking for additional sources of income. But I don't have anything that would tell you, h

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes.

Foreign Affairs committee  It could be happening in developed countries, and more so.

Foreign Affairs committee  There are some, as I'm sure you're aware and have seen in the news, related to extractive industries, construction, government procurement.... Almost any transaction in which a large dollar value is going to be moved between two parties, whether domestically or internationally, p

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm somewhat familiar with what's done in the U.S. and which agency has responsibility there and the amount of work they're doing. I would say, given the size of the United States, that what we're doing is comparable. The U.K. recently amended its legislation, and at the most re

Foreign Affairs committee  They could report that fact to the RCMP. They could report it to the police in the foreign jurisdiction, if they so chose. It would depend upon the actual jurisdiction.

Foreign Affairs committee  Not necessarily. It would depend upon how credible that information might be, what it might line up with, and what supporting facts or documentation might be related to the particular complaint. We wouldn't necessarily immediately try to interfere with what might be a contracting

Foreign Affairs committee  In some respects, the complaint process might; it would depend upon the particular circumstances. If there were an organization or government department involved, it could complain to the government department in that foreign country, to the police in the foreign country, or to c

Foreign Affairs committee  I'll ask Staff Sergeant Rivest to answer this one.

Foreign Affairs committee  Hydro Kleen. Yes. The second conviction was a guilty plea last June by a Canadian company headquartered in Calgary, which was fined a total of just short of $9.5 million, including the victim services surcharge.

Foreign Affairs committee  The OECD might have characterized it as “insufficient resources”. We do have the two seven-person teams in Calgary and Ottawa. They're overseen by an officer at RCMP headquarters. By design those teams are embedded with the commercial crime sections, and they can draw on the reso

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, that's my....