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applegrove

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3. I think we need to have a discussion about the world being divided
Tue Mar 5, 2019, 03:42 PM
Mar 2019

up into places that have corruption and places that don't. And decide as a nation which countries we are going to do business with. And live the rest of our lives that way. Would go a long way in Quebec for them to understand SNC Lavelin and the sanctions it will face. I've just read "Beyond the Beautiful Forevers" by Katherine Boo. Just stunning true book on the effect of corruption on a Mumbi slum. True story.I hated corruption before. I think it is the number one problem in the world now. And the corrupt government now have leverage on us western nations (western nations used to leverage financial norms and human rights against poorer nations when we traded with them - after colonialism and the cold war - now the poorer country are leveraging corruption against our corporations trying to do trade). We need a policy everyone can get behind in canada. It would not change what SNC Lavelin would face but at least Canadians would be on the same page if we educated ourselves and had a discussion about it.Right now Canadians are not on the same page.

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