THE staff of the Transparency International Advisory council call her “the Margaret Thatcher of this international anticorruption institute.” Indeed, her terse and strident tone of talking reminds people of Britain’s former ‘Iron Lady’ Prime Minister.

At the age of 70, Huguette Labelle still travels around Asia and Africa, advocating for anticorruption movements. From her home in Canada, Labelle, who enjoys tending to her rose garden,