ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on institutional corruption and Canadian foreign aid, that Canada's development assistance programs have long suffered from considerable political inference that subject development agendas to the whims and vagaries of political interests. It shows on fighting corruption, there is insufficient public knowledge about anti-corruption reforms to maintain support for governments who are supposed to be dealing with these very problems. The fight against corruption is now global and brings with it a significantly improved understanding of openness and anti-corruption policies and programs. Smillie's piece on foreign and constitutional corruption raises a number of important challenges, none of which are easily overcome through increased coherence and institutional oversight. Stapenhurst and his colleagues have a number of key recommendations in making Canada's extractive sector more accountable and less corrupting. They note that Canada is implementing policies to reduce supply-side corruption but recommend that more be done, especially oversight of anti-corruption laws by Parliament.
