Canada proceeds with promised changes to foreign investment review *

Canada - May 10 2013
The Canadian government's 2013 budget implementation bill (C-60) will enact a number of previously announced adjustments to the Investment Canada Act…

Co-authors: Jun Chao Meng.

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Canada gets tough on foreign corrupt practices *

Canada - February 25 2013
On February 5, 2013, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird announced that the federal government is amending the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials…

Co-authors: Elisabeth S. Preston.

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Cooperating firm agrees to penalty equal to 5 times the amount of foreign bribe *

Canada - January 23 2013
Griffiths Energy International Inc., a Calgary-based oil Exploration and development company, has pled guilty to the offence of bribing a foreign…

Co-authors: Monica Podgorny, Elisabeth S. Preston.

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Canada remains open to foreign investment with some fine-tuning of policies related to investments by state-owned enterprises *

Canada - December 11 2012
On December 7, 2012, Industry Canada released widely anticipated revisions to guidelines1 on the review of proposed investments by foreign state-owned enterprises (SOEs) under the Investment Canada Act (ICA).

Co-authors: Stephen D. Wortley, James B. Musgrove, Devin Anderson, Martin G. Masse.

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Leniency applicants now debarred from federal procurement *

Canada - November 29 2012
Canadian newspapers have been replete with headlines involving allegations of corruption and conflict-of-interest in the handing out of public contracts.

Co-authors: Martin G. Masse.

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