Join us Thursday, November 17 for Canada’s premier anti-corruption event, engaging with top experts from industry, government, civil society, and academia.
Discussions include:
Establishing a Canadian Financial Crime Agency
Municipal Governance: Addressing Corruption at the Local Level
Anti-Corruption and Canada’s Justice Sector
Addressing Corruption through ESG
We will also be presenting TI Canada’s 2nd Canadian Integrity Award!
Early Bird Prices:
TI Canada Members - $920.00
Non-Members - $1,150
Sole Proprietors/NGOs/Academics - $370.00
Students - $198.00
* All purchases are non-refundable after Thursday, November 10th
** Limited media passes are available. Contact ti-can@transparencycanada.ca
*** If you are staff of a TI Canada Supporter organization, please inquire about guest passes. Contact ti-can@transparencycanada.ca
SPEAKER INFO
PROGRAM
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Marcus Kolga, Director and Founder of DisinfoWatch and Senior Fellow at the MacDonald-Laurier Institute will address the current state of global kleptocracy, namely the effort to tackle Russia’s entanglement of dirty money in Western economies and the efforts such as Canadian sanctions to stop it.
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Description:
The Canadian government has been under pressure to increase enforcement of anti-corruption and anti-money laundering laws by domestic and international observers for years. As one step to address these critiques, the federal government announced that it will establish a financial crime agency. How would such an agency work in the federal context? What can the government learn from past agencies and from international example?
Speakers:
(Moderator) Anthony Cole, Partner, Dentons
Gary Clement, Chief Anti-Money Laundering Officer, Versabank
Jessica Davis, President & Principal Consultant, Insight Threat Intelligence
Kristin Solvason, Acting Executive Director, Anti-Money Laundering, Public Safety Canada
Julia Webster, Legal expert
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Description:
Municipal level governments can lack the resources of provinces and the federal government to monitor and combat corruption in areas like procurement, permits and licences. Municipal level corruption scandals have resulted in headline grabbing scandals across the country. What are key challenges that Canadian municipalities face in combatting corruption, and what are successes and good practices they can follow?
Speakers:
(Moderator) Lindsey Marchessault, Director, Open Contracting Partnership
Brigitte Bishop, Inspector General of Montreal
Mayor David Miller, Managing Director , C40 Centre for City Climate Policy and Economy; Mayor of Toronto (2003-2010)
Zachary Spicer, Associate Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration, York University
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Description:
The context for fighting corruption in Canada is always changing, whether due to changes in international obligations, knock on effects from Canadian laws, or even the nature of how criminals conduct corruption and money laundering. In this panel we discuss a mix of challenges and potential solutions for addressing anti-corruption in Canada’s legal sector including:
How the Jordan Rule affects corruption and financial crime cases?
What is the status of addressing the 2015 Supreme Court ruling on legal professionals and suspicious transaction reports?
Is there room to increase transparency in the remediation agreement process?
Speakers:
(Moderator) Amee Sandhu, Senior Legal Counsel, Alstom
John Corelli, Chief Counsel, Serious Fraud Office, Crown Law Office, Ministry of the Attorney General
Jennifer Quaid, Associate Professor & Vice Dean, Civil Law Section, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa
Frederica Wilson, Executive Director, Policy and Public Affairs and Deputy CEO, Federation of Law Societies of Canada
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Description:
Canadian investors are placing more emphasis on ESG standards to help guide their decisions. But there are many ESG standards providing guidance for companies and investors. How can ESG track governance? Is the emphasis on corporate governance as well as governance in the context where a company works? And can addressing governance through ESG help reduce instances of corporate corruption?
Speakers:
(Moderator) Gina Campbell, Financial Crime Partner at Deloitte
Joel Amy, VP Enterprise AML at CI Financial
Tom Booth, Senior Legal Counsel, ABC/AML Middle East and Southeast Asia, Shell Canada Services Limited
Dr. Daniela Chimisso Dos Santos, of Counsel, Cescon, Barrieu, Flesch & Barreto Advogados
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Transparency International Canada is proud to announce David Hutton as the recipient of the 2nd Canadian Integrity Award.
Mr. Hutton is Senior Fellow at the Centre for Free Expression at Toronto Metropolitan University.
Mr. Hutton is receiving the award in recognition or his work directly supporting whistleblowers as well as advocating for greater whistleblower protection at the provincial and federal levels.
TI Canada would like to acknowledge Radio-Canada's investigative journalism program, Enquête, as an honorable mention for The Canadian Integrity Award.