Canada's dysfunctional foreign corruption laws

Published April 27, 2011

Earlier this month, the Paris-based Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development released a scathing report highlighting Canada's weak anti-corruption laws and the Department of Justice's inability to prosecute private sector actors that have committed bribery abroad.

What makes this report astonishing is that it has taken the OECD 12 years since Canada ratified the organization's Anti-Bribery...