Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you.

Foreign Affairs committee  Speaking on behalf of TI Canada, I'll just say that it is, of course, our understanding, too, that this provision regarding removing the facilitation payments exemption is a response to criticism of us in the past. I'll have to tell you that the question of how facilitation paym

Foreign Affairs committee  We reached the conclusion that we did regardless of the question of competitive advantage or disadvantage vis-à-vis American companies.

Foreign Affairs committee  If I might make a comment there, I'll be frank that at TI Canada we have not paid explicit attention to the fact that there is this discrepancy between what's proposed by way of penalties in Bill S-14 and what we have in our current criminal law. But I'd have to say that anybody

Foreign Affairs committee  Well, historically that's certainly been correct, and that's been noted by the OECD and the other organizations that monitor these things. Of course, the OECD is particularly interested in how we do vis-à-vis the OECD's anti-corruption convention, but yes, in the past, quite fran

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes.

Foreign Affairs committee  Would you like me to start?

Foreign Affairs committee  Let me just say that TI Canada is very pleased by this announcement. We've been watching the development of the current towards this result and are very pleased to have heard the announcement. One issue that people have pointed to in the past with these sorts of reporting requir

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much for this opportunity to speak to the committee. I'll just correct something right off the bat. I am with Transparency International Canada. I'm president and chair of the board of Transparency International Canada, which is a national chapter of Transparency

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, that's correct.