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Canadian Ambassador on de-oligarchization: Writing category of people into law can be very dangerous
KYIV. Sept 24 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Ambassador of Canada to Ukraine Larisa Galadza says Canadian legislation on countering oligarchy works differently from the bill supported by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, and considers it dangerous to fix any specific category of people in the legislation.
"We do not have such a law. We have a set of laws that talk about lobbying, about financing election campaigns, about the property of strategic industries, about all such things. This composition together oppose in this way," Galadza said during a youth meeting of the West-East, North-South Kyiv Forum in Lviv.
"I think my own vision is that it can be very dangerous to write a category of people into the law. It is necessary the law is always directed towards action, either it is a good action or a bad action, not at people. I understand what the intention of this law is, but we are doing it differently," the diplomat said.
As reported, on September 23, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine supported the bill on the prevention of threats to national security associated with the excessive influence of persons with significant economic or political weight in public life (oligarchs), the so-called "law on de-oligarchization."
