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In 1992, the requirement to file suspicious activity reports (as well as the accompanying implied gag order) in the United States was added by Section 1517(b) of the Annunzio-Wylie Anti-Money Laundering Act (part of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992, Pub. L. 102–550, 106 Stat. 3762, 4060).
In Canada, only 15% of murders are committed by strangers, [50] in the U.S. this number is very similar at 14%, [51] meaning in 50 years your chance of being murdered at random is 0.000128% in Canada, [52] in the U.S. it is 0.000329% (of course these numbers would vary by neighborhoods within each country).
Instead, the donated money was expended through "counterfeit drugs, siphoning off of drugs to the black market, and payments to ghost employees". Ultimately, there is a sufficient amount of money for health in developing countries, but local corruption denies the wider citizenry the resource they require.
The Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (French: Loi réglementant certaines drogues et autres substances) is Canada's federal drug control statute. Passed in 1996 under Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's government, it repeals the Narcotic Control Act and Parts III and IV of the Food and Drugs Act, and establishes eight Schedules of controlled substances and two Classes of precursors.
The Index only measures public sector corruption, ignoring the private sector. This, for instance, means the well-publicized Libor scandal, Odebrecht case and the VW emissions scandal are not counted as corrupt actions. Media outlets frequently use the raw numbers as a yardstick for government performance, without clarifying what the numbers mean.
The Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) is a program of the United States government to purchase toxic assets and equity from financial institutions to strengthen its financial sector that was passed by Congress and signed into law by President George W. Bush.
The 4% is a retirement planning rule that suggests you can safely withdraw 4% of your retirement portfolio balance each year, adjusted for inflation, without running out of money.
Under Stephen Harper, Canada's general corporate taxes reduced from 22% to 15%. Canada's corporate tax rate thus became one of the lowest in the world, and substantially lower than its top marginal tax rate for individuals. At the same time, Canada's small business tax rate reduced from 12% to 11%. [10]