Talk:Corruption in Canada

Portion removed

Today I removed a point that read as follows, "Sun Belt Water Inc. - In 1999, Sun Belt Water Inc. of Santa Barbara, California, filed a $10.5 billion claim against Canada under Chapter 11 of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The claim alleges political corruption at the highest levels of the Canadian government in relation to the issue of bulk water exports an issue that has a high degree of political sensitivity in Canada." This didn't really fit the subject of the article. It is an international trade dispute wherein an annoyed foreign company has made an allegation of corruption in order to bolster their side of the argument. Nothing seems to have come of it vis-a-vis NAFTA. PKT(alk) 16:53, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

The whole portal is gone. Whats up with that? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.134.158.107 (talk) 23:42, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

Rob Ford

Rob Ford used drugs, how is this corruption as defined. This may be a scandal but not outright corruption. In addition the linked article does not mention curruption, just the scandal. I have removed this once, and would like other's opionions on the matter.VViking_TalkEdits 15:23, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

It was well known across all of Canada that Rob Ford used illegal narcotics. It is proof of corruption among law enforcement and prosecutors when a public official can be photographed and recorded using narcotics, multiple times, yet never serve the kind of jailtime any other citizen would. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2607:FEA8:F1E0:5678:F0C0:4A5C:D73:F793 (talk) 02:08, 26 February 2023 (UTC)

List of Corruptions

• Tax Corruption - Oversee Tax Shelter
• Tax Corruption - Shell Companies
• Fake Charity
• Fake Charity Receipts
• Toronto Police
• Toronto Housing Authority
• Canadaian NSA-Style Surveillance System
• Temporary Workers Program
• Immigration Fraud
• Fake ID
• Black Market
• Money Laundering
• Mortgage
• Contracts
• University Placements
• Nepotism in government hiring (internal posting, hiring relatives as interns to circumvent nepotism rules)
• Patronage - "appointments to the SENATE, to ambassadorships or to lucrative positions on various agencies, boards and commissions" [1]
• Extractive industries [2][3]
• Military
• Private companies overcharging government bodies
• Doctors fake referrals

Anti Corruption Mechanisms

• Audits
• Auditor General
• Parliamentary Budgetary Officer
• Government Civil Service Separation
• Ombudsmen
• Transparency
• Freedom of Information Laws
• Whistle blower protection
• Anit-tax evasion laws
• Open Data
• Digitalization
• [http://icclr.law.ubc.ca/sites/icclr.law.ubc.ca/files/publications/pdfs/Final%20Paper%20Corruption-09%20May%202012.pdf Corruption in Canada:

Reviewing Practices from Abroad to Improve Our Response]

• Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

• Elections laws, contribution limits, expense laws, advertising laws etc.
• Integrity Framework. [4]

• Quebec's anti-corruption squad

--Natkeeran (talk) 05:43, 2 May 2014 (UTC)

Anti corruption organizations

• FAIR (Federal Accountability Initiative for Reform)
• Canadians for Accountability - http://canadians4accountability.org/links-books/#cnpo
• Transparency International Canada
• Canadians for Tax Fairness
• Democracy Watch
• Voices-Voix
• Canadian Anti-Corruption League

Police corruption in Canada

• "John Schertzer, Steven Correia, Ned Maodus, Joseph Miched and Raymond Pollard faced multiple charges based on allegations they conducted searches without warrants, falsified notes to hide those alleged facts and allegedly didn’t account for all of the money seized in drug investigations. They also faced extortion and assault allegations."..."The five officers were all eventually convicted in 2012 of attempting to obstruct justice. Three of them – Pollard, Maodus and Correia – were also convicted of perjury."[5]

--Natkeeran (talk) 17:44, 7 May 2015 (UTC)

This needs to be in the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bagist (talk • contribs) 20:03, 26 November 2015 (UTC)

Corruption by sector (To Do)

• Nepotism

• University and government job placements often go to students with connections to university employees.

• Immigration

• people smuggling
• fake refugee claims

• Contracting/tendering process

• businesses over charging government

• Elections

• robo calls
• bribing candidates
• offering jobs to candidates

• Political appointments
• Construction
• Military
• Sports
• social security system and EI

--Natkeeran (talk) 14:43, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

undue weight, missing sourced or lying about what source says?

Corruption in Ontario is increasingly a major issue in government, civil service, business and non-profit sectors.[citation needed] In the last decade, the Ontario Liberal government has faced serious and high profile corruption cases including eHealth Scandal, Ontario power plant scandal, and Ornge scandal. These cases have implicated the leadership of the Ontario Liberal party, including former three time premier Dalton McGuinty of corruption. The successive Kathleen Wynne led liberal government is facing several corruption cases including for offering bribery during elections.[6]

I placed the citation needed in this, as it appears to be some wiki editors comme Gary rather than cited material. Also, the whole paragraph is highly suspect. The Sun is a right wing climate change denying tabloid. That is the only source given for this highly biased take down. The reason this caught my attention is I saw some right wing extremists on waving this paragraph around the internet as if it were the gospel. It should be pared≥ down for undue weight or at least find some more sources. Wikipedia needs to be better and do better than parroting the Sun. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bagist (talk • contribs) 20:02, 26 November 2015 (UTC)

moving text here for discussion Suggestion

from RCMP: "A 2014 report by an undergraduate sociology student at the University of Western Ontario explains the hierarchical structure and subculture of law enforcement in Canada as well as the nature of hero worship in Canadian society that makes it almost impossible to prevent and punish unlawful police misconduct in the country."

I don't actually question the statement, and I suppose this would lead to abuse of power, but surely a better source is out there Elinruby (talk) 06:49, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

References

need a mining or resource extraction sector, also finance

There is a great deal of information in the panama papers about mining concessions and Canadian companies formed on the supposedly looser Toronto and especially Vancouver stock exchanges. It is not ready to come here but just saying, the businesses are involved in oil, diamonds and timber, tin, cobalt, copper etc and many many shell companies listed on the canadian stock exchanges seem to be involved. If anyone else is working on this right now do you have a preference as to where this should go when it comes? Elinruby (talk) 09:09, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

Notes - Ablerta

• [http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/edmonton/government-removes-board-of-agriculture-financial-service-corporation-suspends-three-top-executives-1.3633381

Government removes board of Agriculture Financial Service Corporation, suspends three top executives] --Natkeeran (talk) 14:01, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

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Changing tone of article

The entire article reads as if corruption is a major issue in Canada. However, this is not supported by most of the references quoted. I just changed the first line of the first paragraph, which stated Canada was rated 9th out of 176 countries for corruption. Originally this appeared to imply Canada was the 9th most corrupt nation in the world. However, reviewing the source, I found that the rankings are listed from LEAST corrupt to MOST corrupt, making Canada the 9th LEAST corrupt nation in the world. I made a small change to clarify this.

The rest of the article's tone is extremely critical, which I don't feel is supported by the referenced material.

--198.161.9.126 (talk) 09:11, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

Not nearly enough talk about indigenous issues

Despite there being numerous documentations of corrupt actions done by the Canadian Government towards First-Nations populations in Canada.

Also this page also does not include recent events such as the WE scandal despite it also being greatly documented. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.58.100.212 (talk) 11:20, 27 December 2020 (UTC)

The "WE Scandal" is a scandal, not corruption. --Picard102 (talk) 16:02, 10 February 2022 (UTC)