Quebec has been shaken by a report on the extent of corruption in the Canadian province’s construction industry, but perhaps even more interesting is the point a guest blogger on the The FCPA blog made about the secrecy surrounding the report.
“While the bulk of media coverage has focused on the corruption, there is an equally troubling aspect: the secrecy surrounding the report itself,” wrote Heather MacIntosh, a programme director at the Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership wrote.
MacIntosh argues that given that the report “names no individuals, companies, or political parties,” the secrecy surrounding the report is unnecessary and symptomatic of the lack of transparency that helped to engender the corruption in the first place.
Read the rest of MacIntosh’s post here.
TrustLaw has reported on the Quebec corruption scandal here, here and here.
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