While 2018 may not have seen a significant uptick in "on
the ground" securities and white-collar enforcement activity,
it has included some momentous legislative and enforcement strategy
changes on a number of fronts including anti-money laundering,
deferred prosecution agreements, public bidding and capital markets
enforcement.
Government of Canada's expanded toolkit to address
corporate wrongdoing
In the fall of 2017, the Government of Canada held an extensive
public consultation process to seek input on potential enhancements
to the Integrity Regime and on a possible Canadian deferred
prosecution agreement regime to improve Canada's enforcement
toolkit for combating corporate wrongdoing. In 2018, Parliament
introduced the legislation to bring about those enhancements.
