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Export Development Canada playing loose with loan risks: Auditor-General report

April 30, 2018
Export Development Canada is mishandling loan risks and keeping board members in the dark about key financing arrangements, according to a scathing report by federal Auditor-General Michael Ferguson. By Barrie McKenna | The Globe and Mail

How a federal agency helps finance some of the world’s most corrupt regimes

December 19, 2017
Export Development Canada has perfected the art of lending billions of taxpayer dollars to scandal-ridden foreign buyers. But its transparency could use some work. By Richard Poplak | Published in The Walrus

EDC’s backing of Bombardier jet sale calls secrecy policies into question

August 4, 2017
A Canadian deal to finance a luxury Bombardier jet for a controversial South African business family has cast a fresh spotlight on secrecy policies at the federal government’s export credit agency. By Geoffrey York | The Globe and Mail

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