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Prudent Budget Planning and Budgetary Process Effectiveness: The Canadian Federal Government’s Experience (Working Paper 47)
(2008-10)
In 1994, the Liberal government introduced a structured approach to prudent budgeting to provide the fiscal discipline needed to meet its debt reduction targets in which explicit prudence factors were introduced into the ...
What Kind of a Financial System do Canadians Want? Implications of Globalization and Current Canadian Policies for the Future of the Canadian Financial System (Working Paper 2)
(2000-07)
This paper examines the longer term
outlook for the Canadian financial services
industry and its governance. Attention is
paid to what would happen to the Canadian
financial system and its governance, federal
and ...
Sustaining a Relationship : Insights from Canada on Linking the Government and Third Sector (Working Paper 1)
(2000-06)
The embedding of third sector organisations in the policy world is fraught with tensions.
Accountability and autonomy become oppositional forces causing an uneasy relationship. Government
agencies are concerned that their ...
The Olivia Framework:Concepts for Use in Finely-Grained, Integrated Social Policy Analysis (Working Paper 45)
(2008-11)
The Olivia framework is a set of concepts and measures that, when mature, will allow users to describe, in a consistent and integrated manner, everything about individuals and institutions that is of potential interest to ...
"Biggest Scandal in Canadian History": HRDC Audit Starts Probity War (Working Paper 23)
(2001-08)
The article describes the nearly year-long political and media uproar that followed on the
release in January, 2000 of a qualitative or soft “audit” of management control in the federal government
department, Human ...
Unrecognized Exodus, Unaccepted Accountability : The Looming Shortage of Principals and Vice Principals in Ontario Public School Boards (Working Paper 24)
(2001-10)
To the apparent surprise of policy makers at the provincial and school board levels,
Ontario’s public schools are about to experience a massive exodus of principals and vice principals.
This report, funded by a grant ...
An Evidence-Based Approach to Access Reform (Working Paper 22)
(2001-07)
In August 2000, the federal government began an internal review of the Access to
Information Act (ATIA). The ATIA gives Canadians a qualified right of access to records held by federal
institutions. Decisions about reform ...
Cape Breton Provides Pointers for the Adjustment Programs Required by the Decline of the Old Economy (Working Paper 14)
(2001-02)
The Cape Breton Development Corporation
need not, should not, be dying in the
way it is. “Devco” has been widely represented
as a failure dragged out too long.
In fact it had for a time considerable
success in a role ...