(May 19, 2000) The government is looking at establishing an ombudsman for the Export Development Corporation as part of an effort to improve the much-criticized Crown corporation’s "accountability, compliance and access to information."

(May 16, 2000) Members of the official Opposition made EDC chairman Patrick Lavelle the focus of their opening queries yesterday in question period. A long-time Liberal and self-confessed patronage appointee, Mr. Lavelle is a personal friend and political confidant of Prime Minister Jean Chretien.

(May 13, 2000) Many of the Liberal party’s biggest corporate donors have collectively received billions in financial assistance from the taxpayer-backed Export Development Corp. — on whose board Liberal appointees of Prime Minister Jean Chretien form the powerful nucleus.

(May 12, 2000) Once again the Citizen has drawn erroneous conclusions about the Export Development Corporation’s actions, this time with respect to the alliance we have forged with London Guarantee ("Firm with ties to Chretien lands untendered EDC deal," May 9). This continues the pattern of unbalanced and distorted reporting that has characterized the Citizen’s coverage of EDC over the preceding weeks.

(May 10, 2000) The secretive Export Development Corporation may have contravened the free trade agreement by quietly awarding lucrative insurance business to a Liberal-connected Canadian company without a call to tenders, critics say.