Jennifer Quaid

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Corruption is a serious issue and costly threat to Canada’s foreign trade and international reputation. (Shutterstock)

Canada needs to move beyond poorly enforced bribery laws and tackle corruption’s root causes

Laureen Snider, Queen's University, Ontario; Jennifer Quaid, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa; Jon Frauley, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa, and Steven Bittle, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

If Canada wants to fix its reputation for being weak on corruption, it needs to confront the harms associated with globalization and bring multinational corporations under democratic control.
The Competition Bureau has been ordered to pay $13 million to Rogers Communications and Shaw Communications by the Competition Tribunal. (Shutterstock)

Despite legal costs awarded to Rogers‑Shaw, the competition commissioner’s challenge to the telecom merger was not a waste of taxpayer money

Jennifer Quaid, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

Enforcement agencies like the Competition Bureau have a duty to pursue cases they consider to be well-founded and in the public interest. But it’s unrealistic to expect they will win every time.
Canadians first learned about a price-fixing scandal that raised the wholesale price of bread in 2017, when Loblaw and George Weston revealed their part in it. A worker restocks shelves at an Atlantic Superstore grocery in Halifax in January 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Kelly Clark

Show me the money: Canada Bread penalty raises questions about criminal fines

Jennifer Quaid, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

Why is the $50 million going to the government and not to those who overpaid for bread? The answer is complicated.
De la fumée se dégage de wagons contenant du pétrole brut après le déraillement d’un train à Lac-Mégantic, au Québec, en 2013. La Presse canadienne/Paul Chiasson

Accidents ferroviaires : la sécurité du public victime de la déréglementation

Bruce Campbell, York University, Canada and Jennifer Quaid, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

Deux compagnies ferroviaires, le CN et le CP, déterminent les lois, les règles et les règlements – avec la complicité de bureaucrates et de législateurs – de manière à servir leurs propres intérêts.
Smoke rises from railway cars that were carrying crude oil after derailing in Lac-Mégantic, Que., in 2013. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson

Rail accidents: Public safety and accountability suffer because of deregulation

Bruce Campbell, York University, Canada and Jennifer Quaid, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

The recent rail accident in Ohio is raising questions about who should be responsible for the aftermath of derailments. Residents impacted by a 10-year-old rail tragedy in Canada still want answers.
The Supreme Court of Canada’s recent decision has put a halt to any legal claims that there’s no difference between corporations and people. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

Supreme Court dismisses company’s cruel and unusual punishment claim

Jennifer Quaid, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

The Supreme Court of Canada’s recent ruling against a company that claimed a fine against it constituted cruel and unusual punishment will quell fears of weakening corporate law.
The statue of Veritas (Truth) is pictured in front of the Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa in May 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Supreme Court: Can a corporation be subjected to cruel and unusual punishment?

Jennifer Quaid, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

A Québec company is asking for a Charter right usually reserved for people. There could be unintended consequences if it wins its challenge to the Supreme Court of Canada.

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