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Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics
Robert Czerny: Opening Remarks, 10 August 2020
Thank you for this opportunity to address you on important matters of proper... Read more >
I recently watched a podcast by Marianne Talbot, Ethics Professor at Oxford. She was making comments on how moral or ethical dilemmas require us to reflect rationally on our values, for example: what... Read more >
The Alberta Legislature is reviewing ethics and accountability legislation and has invited organizations and individuals to comment on the Conflicts of Interest Act bill by March 4. Read more about... Read more >
Is anything in the world more important than my rights?
My parents taught me the answer when I was seven. One day there were visitors to our home, and my brother, two years older than me, secretly... Read more >
Diane Girard, member of EPAC and RÉOQ, reminds us that the Charbonneau Commission on corruption in contracting and management in Québec’s construction industry has issued its report. In French... Read more >
EPAC Director Ryan Turnbull recommends this article on the Volkswagen emissions scandal. It highlights fundamental points on business ethics and corporate social responsibility (CSR), and proposes... Read more >
Ottawa, November 4, 2015
The Right Honourable Justin P.J. Trudeau, P.C., M.P., Prime Minister of Canada, Ottawa
Dear Prime Minister,
On behalf of the Directors of the Ethics Practitioners’... Read more >
EPAC/APEC has two online tools for sharing ideas. And that’s very important. We need to share ideas beyond our immediate localities. And we want to sustain discussions beyond the few minutes or... Read more >
Some of us in Ottawa and Toronto are beginning to explore the idea of a new professional organization, with international letters patent and the first national body in Canada, of a professional... Read more >
Whenever I tell people that I’m in the ethics business, they immediately reply, “You must be very busy these days!”
But the unethical folk we see on the nightly news and in the daily paper... Read more >
