Corporate Responsibility Campaign

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Corporate Responsibility Campaign

Advocating stronger corporate responsibility laws

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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:
(in reverse chronological order)

NEWS RELEASE: Federal Conservatives' Proposed White-Collar Crime Measures Too Little, Too Late to Protect Investors and Consumers -- U.S. Experience Shows Two New Citizen Watchdog Groups Needed For Effective Corporate Accountability (October 21, 2009)
REPORT CARD: NDP Receives Best Grade in Report Card on Parties' Good Government Platforms, Greens Close Behind, Conservatives and Liberals Receive Worst Grades (October 10, 2008)
NEWS RELEASE: Report Card Reveals No Matter Which Party Wins, Ontario Government and Large Corporations Will Remain Largely Unaccountable for Dishonest, Unethical, Secretive, Unrepresentative and Wasteful Activities Because of Key Gaps in Provincial Parties' "Good Government" Platforms (October 5, 2007) -- To see the CTV.ca article about the Report Card, and to watch a video of the news conference, click here
NEWS RELEASE: Democracy Watch Proud To Have Played Small Part in Charter of Rights History -- Canada Also Needs A Charter of Government and Corporate Accountability and Democracy (April 16, 2007)
WEBSITE ARTICLE: Conrad Black and Hollinger Inc. case reveals systemic problem of corporate structures that obscure accountability (Canoe.ca, Canada.com, and CTV.ca websites (publishing Canadian Press (CP) wire article), March 11, 2007)
WEBSITE ARTICLE: Small investors at risk, coalition calls on government to help create investor rights association (Halifax Chronicle-Herald, January 21, 2007)
NEWS RELEASE: Many Ontario Politicians on Unethical Gravy Train -- Propose To Raise Their Own Pay, But Not To Limit Donations, To Strengthen Ethics Rules, Or To Strengthen Democracy (December 19, 2006)
WEBSITE ARTICLE: Federal government does not screen companies before awarding contracts to ensure the companies have a clean business record (Part 2) (Hamilton Spectator, October 5, 2006)
WEBSITE ARTICLE: Federal government does not screen companies it awards contracts to ensure companies have a clean business recor (Part 1) (Hamilton Spectator, October 2, 2006)
NEWS RELEASE: Key Question for Parliament's Fall Session -- Will Government Accountability Be Increased? (September 19, 2006)
WEBSITE ARTICLE: Public safety at risk because airline workers, and workers in many other industries, are not protected if they blow the whistle on wrongdoing or hazards (Hamilton Spectator, June 15, 2006)
NEWS RELEASE: Conservatives' "Federal Accountability Act" Should Be Expanded to Close All Loopholes -- Other Key Democratic Reforms Should Be Priority for All Parties in Parliament (March 27, 2006)
REPORT CARD: Federal NDP Has Best Corporate Responsibility Platform, Greens and Bloc Not Too Far Behind, Conservative and Liberal Grades Much Worse -- Many Key Gaps in All Parties' Platforms . . . (January 19, 2006)
REPORT CARD: Federal Conservative Party Has Best Government Accountability Election Platform -- NDP, Greens, Bloc Tied Not Far Behind, Liberal Grades Much Worse -- All Platforms Still Have Key Gaps. . . (January 18, 2006) -- See also WEBSITE ARTICLE on CTV.ca's website about Democracy Watch's Report Card and Democracy Watch's January 16, 2006 news release by clicking here

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