![]() ![]() The reforms would bring Canada’s policy closer to that of the US. DOI: 10.1111/capa.12413Ībstract: The Canadian government is considering changes to its Integrity and Suspension Policy, particularly the rules governing debarment and when an individual or corporation can be precluded from public contracting due to misconduct. " Just a Business Decision? Debarment in Public Procurement in Canada and the United States" (2021) Canadian Public Administration 64(2): 238-256. This led Canada to adopt corporate diversion, which promised greater enforcement, and also led Canada to adopt a form of the practice with legislative and judicial limits that narrowed the chances of any company-including SNC-Lavalin-of obtaining a remediation agreement. The article shows how international criticism of Canada’s lacklustre anti–foreign bribery enforcement record catalyzed crossnational policy diffusion and learning from other states. Drawing on a wide-ranging documentary record, I argue that this reform was the product of transnational lawmaking and the ongoing influence of Canada’s international commitments to prohibit and punish foreign bribery. This article examines why the federal government adopted and chose this particular new tool. Introduced in 2018, remediation agreements allow corporate diversion and create an alternative to the prosecution of corporations suspected of criminal wrongdoing. DOI : 10.1017/S0008423921000664.Ībstract: At issue in the SNC-Lavalin scandal was a new tool of corporate criminal law: remediation agreements. " Behind the SNC-Lavalin Scandal: The Transnational Diffusion of Corporate Diversion" (2021) Canadian Journal of Political Science.
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