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HARP-246 |
| Title: |
WHO’S RESPONSIBLE? |
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Canadian Business, March 3, 2003, FEATURES; Corporate Liability; Pg. 39 |
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2003 |
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Canada, economic, social, and cultural rights, employment, government, human rights, law, justice |
| Abstract: |
When Bill Trudell appeared last spring before a parliamentary committee studying the criminal liability of corporations, the ideas for reform being tossed around were a defence lawyer’s nightmare. Some of the scariest: new definitions to make it easier to tag companies and their officials with the crimes of low-level employees, and jail terms for executives and directors even if they knew nothing about the safety problems that caused a worker’s death. “I dreamt I came here and the bill had already been passed,” Trudell, chair of the Canadian Council of Criminal Defence Lawyers, deadpanned to members of the standing committee on justice and human rights. “And I was running to a phone to call all the persons I know who are directors of corporations to tell them to resign immediately, before I was reported to the bar society.” Since then, the federal government has backed away from special laws to target officers and directors, but Trudell says corporate Canada still needs a wake-up call. With surprisingly little fanfare and even less input from the business community, Ottawa is overhauling the Criminal Code to make it easier to convict corporations of an array of crimes, from theft and fraud to assault and criminal negligence. |
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Keywords: Canada, cultural rights, economic, employment, government, human rights, justice, law, social
