(Globe and Mail, Toronto, 4 June 2019) Export Development Canada once described itself as the country’s ‘secret trade weapon.’ But The Globe’s review of thousands of transactions reveals a pattern of secrecy and lax supervision. In Latin America, billions of dollars in Canadian government-...
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2019/06/30
Country: Brazil, Canada, Mexico, South Africa
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Corruption
2019/05/30
Country: Canada, Mexico
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Corruption
(Yorkton This Week, Yorkton SK, 15 May 2019) Export Development Canada (EDC), Canada's export credit agency, was created in 1944 to promote Canadian business overseas. It has 12 offices across Canada and 19 regional offices around the world. According to CBC reports SNC Lavelin have borrowed...
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2018/01/31
Country: Brazil, Canada, Mexico
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Corruption
Member: Above Ground
(Hill Times, Ottawa, 15 January 2018) When allegations emerged last fall that the Mexican president’s 2012 election campaign was funded in part by a subsidiary of the Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht, the news barely made headlines in Canada. But this recent development in the far-...
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