meeting with managers and lawyers that will oversee the operation to make clear your reporting expectations. Establishing that relationship, and maintaining it, is the best way to avoid reporting catastro- phes down the road, he says. Gwen Klees, vice president of legal
affairs and corporate secretary for tech- nology company GLV Inc. in Montreal, has been dealing with these types of questions a lot lately. She has been guid- ing the company for the last year through its acquisition of 30 companies across the globe. Klees notes that other jurisdictions may have requirements that are more or less onerous than what exist in Canada, whether they relate to human resources or industry-specific regulations. It may be tempting to simply toe the line of those standards, but Klees cautions com- panies against that. She says it is wise to keep standards in line with those in other locations, or observers may question the company's motives. "There's going to be
Villagers use a blockade to demand proper compensation for an old accident at Kumtor gold mine in Kyrgyzstan.
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