Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you.

Foreign Affairs committee  If I could, Mr. Chair, I'd like to make one very brief statement. You will no doubt hear about International Anti-Corruption Day on December 9. Transparency International Canada has announced that it will be releasing an important study that it has done on beneficial ownership.

Foreign Affairs committee  I agree with that answer.

Foreign Affairs committee  The United States, of course, has been very active in terms of its deferred prosecution. There have been suggestions that Canada should also develop that. I think when one is looking at corporate global foreign corruption, one has to look at a range of sanctions. Some jurisdicti

Foreign Affairs committee  No. We were admonished by the OECD when they did the evaluation of our Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act, and then the government responded by creating these units. Three years ago we were told by the RCMP that they had two big cases, and we saw $9 million and $10 mill

Foreign Affairs committee  The end goal always with sanctions is, number one, to provide an appropriate response to those who have violated our laws. Global corruption is violating human rights laws with huge impact, so the first function is to deal sternly with those who create such violations of human ri

Foreign Affairs committee  I'll try to be brief so that Gretta can also get her two bits in. Deterrence is something that I look at as a criminal law professor. Indeed, in our regular criminal justice system, which deals mostly with street crime and with people who are not motivated largely by a rational

Foreign Affairs committee  I am a criminal law professor. I think my students would say I'm slightly oriented toward the defence bar on many of these issues, but here's an issue where I think I swing clearly in the other direction. I think that we have to look at the context, as we're always asked to do, w

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much for the question. I'm all in favour of greater enforcement, including naming and shaming and every other possible way that we can attempt to keep corrupt funds from being processed or laundered through our Canadian financial institutions. As well, in many cas

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much for the invitation to be here. Since I'm a lawyer, it won't surprise you that I'm going to start with a disclaimer. My disclaimer is that when I was initially asked to speak, I declined on the basis that I did not have any specific knowledge about the two ac