{"id":9483,"date":"2011-05-24T10:21:11","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T14:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=9483"},"modified":"2011-05-24T10:21:11","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T14:21:11","slug":"bribery-canada-ranked-below-international-pariahs-australia-hungary-and-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/05\/24\/bribery-canada-ranked-below-international-pariahs-australia-hungary-and-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"Bribery: Canada ranked below international pariahs Australia, Hungary, and New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, Canadian businessmen pass out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/politics\/canada-ranked-worst-of-g7-nations-in-fighting-bribery-corruption\/article2032347\/\" target=\"_blank\">bribes like business cards<\/a>, and we&#8217;re accused of being the only G7 nation to fail to crack down on the practice, according to <em>Transparency International<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Canada has again been scolded on the international stage for its \u201clack of progress\u201d in fighting bribery and corruption by a watchdog agency that ranks it among the worst of nearly 40 countries.<\/p>\n<p>Transparency International, a group that monitors global corruption, put Canada in the lowest category of countries with \u201clittle or no enforcement\u201d when it comes to applying bribery standards set out by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. <\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>The poor rating places Canada in the embarrassing company of countries like Greece, Hungary, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia &mdash; although New Zealand and Australia are also among the 21 countries in the bottom rung. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&lt;sarc&gt;Well, there goes <em>our<\/em> sterling reputation for international dealings. We might as well order in 30 million black hats now.&lt;\/sarc&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, Canadian businessmen pass out bribes like business cards, and we&#8217;re accused of being the only G7 nation to fail to crack down on the practice, according to Transparency International: Canada has again been scolded on the international stage for its \u201clack of progress\u201d in fighting bribery and corruption by a watchdog agency that ranks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[331,6,25],"tags":[363,723,301],"class_list":["post-9483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-cancon","category-economics","tag-corruption","tag-hungary","tag-newzealand"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2sX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9484,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9483\/revisions\/9484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}