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 [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Reports and Briefings by Henry McCandless on Public Accountability category.
Equity Statements: A New Approach to Public Accountability
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 [...]
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 [...]
Improving Public Trust in Politicians
This article was joint with Karin Howard, a former Ottawa city councilor, federal political party nominee candidate and public accountability advocate. It outlined fair accountability of politicians.
Op-ed in the Ottawa Hill Times 21 April 2008
Improving Public Trust in Politicians
By Karin Howard and Henry McCandless
Public trust must be consistently earned for a politician to be effective. [...]
It Will Take Citizens to Hold Government to Account
This was the first op-ed of the citizen committee formed on the public accountability of the B.C. Minister of Health
Op-ed in The Victoria Times Colonist 2 Aug. 2007
It Will Take Citizens to Hold Government to Account
Eight people from Greater Victoria have established a citizens’ accountability group on health. They have written this to explain their [...]
The article was to point out publicly to Senators what they could do for government public accounting, and was titled The Senate Can Cause Government to Account: Will It? The title given it by the Hill Times was inappropriate.
OP-ed in the Ottawa Hill Times 20 November 2006
Senators should do the right thing: clean [...]
Remarks by Henry E. McCandless to the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs
The author’s remarks to the Senate committee followed those to the House of Commons.
Remarks by Henry E. McCandless to the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs
5 September 2006
I’m grateful to the Committee for inviting me to be a witness for this hearing. As I noted to the Commons Legislative Committee on Bill [...]
