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 [...]
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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 [...]
Public Accountability in a Minority Government
by Henry E. McCandless
[Reprinted from Canadian Parliamentary Review, Autumn 2004]
Minority governments provide parliamentarians with a better opportunity than majority governments to hold the executive effectively to account. This article argues that the government will no longer be able to rely on its majority in parliament to avoid adequate answering for its actions. Nor will it [...]
