Description: Sandy Boucher, a fraud investigator at law firm Grant Thornton, tells BNN that there is a new push among developed economies to enforce litigations on firms dealing in cross-border corruption.

Source: BNN

Date: November 01 2012

Video and Text Link: http://www.bnn.ca/News/2012/11/1/Miners-face-new-reality-in-corruption-enforcement.aspx

Questions for Discussion:

1. Should Canadian companies be penalized for bribing when companies from developing economies are not being penalized by their own governments?
2. How can a level playing field be maintained in foreign markets when Canadian companies have to compete with Chinese companies to win foreign contracts?
3. What are some of the suggestion for Canadian companies to stop their officials from paying bribes abroad?