Corporate Responsibility Campaign

Corporate Responsibility Campaign
Advocating stronger, more effectively enforced corporate responsibility laws

Documents produced by the Corporate Responsibility Campaign

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Organizations - Join the nation-wide Corporate Responsibility Coalition (launched April 6, 2000) by signing on to the Coalition's 15 Recommendations to Make Canada's Corporations Responsible

For background, view Democracy Watch's Corporate Responsibility Discussion Paper (October 1994)

Links to Corporate Responsibility Resources

Democracy Watch has produced the following documents in its Corporate Responsibility Campaign
(newest to oldest)

TV INTERVIEW: Democracy Watch Board member Duff Conacher on SNC-Lavalin scandal and changes needed to laws to increase corporate responsibility and accountability in Canada (CTV's National Affairs show, March 26, 2012)
NEWS RELEASE: Federal Conservatives did bail out Canada's big banks in 2009 -- now must finally take action to ensure banks and other financial institutions service, lending, investment and prices are fair and responsible (Canadian Community Reinvestment Coalition, October 18, 2011)
TV INTERVIEW: Founding Director Duff Conacher interviewed about Occupy Canada protests across Canada and key corporate responsibility and bank accountability measures (CTV News Channel, October 15, 2011)
TV INTERVIEW: Founding Director Duff Conacher on Occupy Canada protests across Canada and key corporate responsibility and bank accountability measures (Sun News, October 15, 2011)
OP-ED: People are asking for protection from corporate greed and wrongdoing – will Canada’s politicians finally give it? (October 13-14, 2011)
NEWS RELEASE: Occupy Canada protesters should support 15 key bank and corporate responsibility changes endorsed by 140 citizen groups across Canada for the past decade (October 12, 2011) -- To see related iPolitics.ca article, click here, and CBC.ca article, click here
NEWS RELEASE: Ontarians should not be surprised at record low voter turnout in provincial election (October 7, 2011) -- To see related CBC.ca article, click here
NEWS RELEASE: Green Party receives D- best grade of bad overall grades in Report Card on Ontario Parties' Good Government Platforms -- Conservatives receive an E, NDP an F and Liberals an Incomplete (September 30, 2011)
WEBSITE ARTICLE: Case involving senator working abroad for Canadian company could set strong ethical government precedent (Globe and Mail, June 26-27, 2011)
LETTER-TO-THE-EDITOR: Canada only 14th out of 34 countries in OECD Governance rankings (TheTyee.ca, May 24, 2011, Toronto Star, May 26, 2011)
WEBSITE ARTICLE: Federal Commissioner of Lobbying Karen Shepherd has as weak an enforcement record as the former disgraced Integrity Commissioner -- loopholes must finally be closed and strong enforcement finally required (Hill Times, May 23, 2011)
WEBSITE ARTICLE: Federal Commissioner of Lobbying Karen Shepherd admits penalizing lobbyists who violate the Lobbying Act is very rare (Canada.com, GlobalNews.ca and 10 Postmedia News newspapers across Canada, May 10, 2011)
WEBSITE ARTICLE: Finally, opposition parties show interest in closing loophole that allows for secret, unethical corporate lobbying of federal government (Hill Times, March 7, 2011)
WEBSITE ARTICLE: Barrick Gold and Visa Canada exploit loophole by employing former Conservative Cabinet staff as lobbyists before five years has passed (Bloomberg news, February 17, 2011)
NEWS RELEASE: Tens of thousands of hits on CoffeeParty.ca movement site in first week (February 4, 2011)
NEWS RELEASE: Thousands visit CoffeeParty.ca in first day of movement (January 28, 2011)

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