Political interference would mean the Canadian government violated the standards it agreed to as a founding signatory to the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention
OTTAWA — The Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development’s working group on bribery has issued a press release about Canada on just two occasions in the last decade.
Drago Kos, who chairs the OECD’s bribery working group, told the National Post Canada is ordinarily a “very credible” presence at the table. Nonetheless his group is paying specific attention to former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould’s allegations that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and top officials exerted inappropriate political pressure on her to facilitate a remediation agreement for the company.
The OECD has no power to enforce the convention, other than to repeatedly name and shame governments that are doing a poor job prosecuting individuals and corporations that use bribery to conduct business abroad. In its 20 years of monitoring the OECD has issued more than 1,500 recommendations across the board, according to its website.
Some countries, such as Russia and Argentina, are targeted more consistently for their failures. Repeated statements reproached Argentina for its “serious noncompliance” until, many years after it signed on to the convention, its sitting government introduced a corporate liability bill at the end of 2016.
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