POLS 3440 Lecture : POLS 3440 Lecture Notes September - November.
3 Nov 2012
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Make sure whoever is accountable is answerable to their public and electors. Public protection against corruption in government rests on two principles: Transparency open government let the people see everything that ministers, members and public servants are doing. Access to information act is one of the tools of open government. So is parliament itself, including the question period: accountability. Corruption is not exclusive to any country. ethics, and so on. Airbus was a large purchase by federal gov in 88, mulroney gov spent 1. 3 billion for these planes. The deal no one knew was that schreiber got a fixed fee for every airbus air canada bought, air canada bought 32 airbuses and he collect 63 million dollars. Air canada paid half a million more for the airbus than needed. Someone got the money, and it was never accounted for. Mulroney only admits to take 3 payments from schrieber and schrieber says he gave him 3 installments of 100 thousand cash.
