Anti-corruption advocates call on feds to expedite registry tracking dirty money, warn 2025 target too far off

CSG Senator Percy Downe says Canada has developed an ‘unfortunate reputation’ as a place where dirty money can be 'snow-washed.'

Conservative MP Adam Chambers, NDP MP Daniel Blaikie, and CSG Senator Percy Downe, a former chief of staff to Jean Chrétien, are all calling on the government to move faster to track dirty money. Photograph courtesy of Adam Chambers’ YouTube, The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade, Cynthia Münster

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BY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

March 10, 2022

MPs, Senators, and anti-corruption advocates are urging the federal government to speed up plans to set up a national beneficial ownership registry, to make it more difficult for Canada to be used as a place to park dirty money. The U.K. government

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