The Public Accountability Obligation of the Vancouver Island Health Authority Board of Directors
This is an example of a citizen group accountability letter to an authority that affects citizens in important ways.
Letter sent 15 Sept to each of the individual members of the Board of Directors of the Vancouver Island Health Authority (VIHA) , the public [...]
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The Public Accountability Obligation of the Vancouver Island Health Authority Board of Directors
A Proposal for a Specific Role for the United Nations
This proposal came about because it is obvious that the highest order of public accountability is at the inter-nation level. The writer sent the proposal to both Stephen Lewis and Lloyd Axworthy, with the reasons, but received no reply from either person.
18 June 2003 (updated Feb.06)
A Proposal for a Specific Role for the United Nations: [...]
A Right Understanding of Matters
A Right Understanding of Matters
This September 2009 Article in Common Ground magazine is intended as a sum-up for citizens on the public accountability obligation, and the need for public, full and fair explanation by authorities before the fact to be required by law.
Writing on the wall Henry E. McCandless Canadian citizens accepted thousands of preventable deaths and wrecked [...]
Equity Statements: A New Approach to Public Accountability
Equity Statements: A New Approach to Public Accountability
At the time this article was written Henry McCandless was a writer and consultant in accountability in Ottawa. He was research associate with the Canadian Comprehensive Auditing Foundation from 1994 to 1996.
Public accountability is not just about enhancing standards of public answering; it is about installing them. This [...]
The Elected Representative’s Role in Public Accountability
The Elected Representative’s Role in Public Accountability
At the time this article was written Henry McCandless was a Principal n the Audit Operations Branch of the Office of the Auditor General of Canada.
Governments and their agencies need clear achievement objectives and fundamental rules included in their performance standards. But they also need accountability standards for stating [...]
Governance and Information: Myths, Realities and the Future
Governance and Information: Myths, Realities and the Future
by Garth Graham, Cornelius F. Burk and Henry E. McCandless
Canadian Parliamentary Review, Volume 17, No. 4
As legislators come to realize that they need better information for their governance roles, they must have assurance that management of information in government is a process that informs, and is not simply [...]
A government’s definition of accountability
One of the Journal’s aims is to give examples of public statements and writing that obscure the concept of public accountability rather than help citizens and those in authority understand the concept and its importance.
We can reasonably expect the Canadian federal executive government to have a useful definition of accountability as a guide for its [...]
Holding governments to account needs legislators, auditors general and citizens working together
This article explains how auditors general can better serve the accountability relationship between executive governments and the legislatures, and underscores the duty of legislators to install in the law the obligation of full and fair public accounting by governments such that auditors general can audit compliance with the law.
Op-ed in the Ottawa Hill Times 22 [...]
Responsibility Not Same As Accountability
This article was to help overcome misleading interpretations of public accountability and give examples of missing accountability and management control.
Op-ed in the Victoria Times Colonist Friday, April 17, 2009
“All we get are slick PR statements”
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B.C Election: Responsibility Not Same As Accountability
Authorities often substitute public relations for communication
Henry McCandless
Authorities affecting the public in important ways have the obligation [...]
Why Citizens Must Hold to Account
This is a summary explanation of public accountability for the South Island Health Coalition in Victoria, B.C.
15 December 2008
Why Citizens Must Hold to Account
Public accountability regulates fairness in society. But to achieve fairness, citizens must change their relationship with authorities. The question is whether citizens have the courage. Citizens must not trust an authority that [...]
