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  The RCMP was aware of that case. In fact, I brought a copy of today's online Globe and Mail article with me. With respect to actual matters that relate to the investigation, I would not say more than what the RCMP spokesman in the article said, which I could quote for you: ...

Foreign Affairs committee  I would just reiterate that we had received a request for assistance. That's what was confirmed by our media relations representative. Commenting further on ongoing investigations would be inadvisable on our part.

Foreign Affairs committee  From the RCMP perspective, we work with open-source information. There are certain activities that might attract our attention in open-source information. As well, we're prepared to take complaint information or requests for assistance from other countries.

Foreign Affairs committee  There might be circumstances where we would, depending upon how credible the information is, how much it might have in the way of supporting documentation or supporting information from other sources.

Foreign Affairs committee  The corporate social responsibility counsellor?

Foreign Affairs committee  Thanks. Good afternoon, Mr. Chairman and honourable members of the committee. Thank you for inviting the RCMP to participate in today's proceedings. We understand that the committee is studying the role of the private sector in achieving Canada's international development intere

Finance committee  I'm not sure I understand that's the way things are done with respect to how the charges get before the court.

Finance committee  I wouldn't understand that to happen that way. If you could....

Finance committee  My experience is that the Canada Revenue Agency takes their own case to the prosecutors.

Justice committee  From the fraud perspective, commercial crimes area, we see significant fraudulent activity in the area of counterfeit cheques and mass marketing fraud.