Ottawa's too heavy hand on corporate crime
We can learn more than just hockey from our great neighbors to the north. Treating corporate criminals more like we treat other criminals is a step in the right direction. If you steal from a store, you can’t go back in that store. If you commit fraud on my neighbor, I don’t want you at my door. The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act helps.
— Shayne Stevenson
"Has the Harper government backed itself into a corner with its zeal for law and order? Under rules it quietly implemented earlier this year, it has obliged itself to bar giant multinational firms like Hewlett-Packard, Siemens AG and BAE-Systems from bidding on federal government contracts, because the companies were convicted of bribery or fraud charges in other countries in the past 10 years." Full article »
