Centre for Public Accountability

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 [...]

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.  [...]

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 [...]

This op-ed was to point out the purposefully misleading titling of a federal Act purporting to be about accountability, and the implications of the fraud..
A genuine Canada Public Accountability Act is not difficult to draw up.
Article in the Ottawa Hill Times 22 May 2006
Harper’s Federal Accountability Act Isn’t About Accountability
Stephen Harper’s political advisors can be [...]

This letter was to point out the lack of parliamentary understanding of public accountability and its service to the public good.
The Editor, Hill Times
Letter in the Ottawa Hill Times 5 Dec.05 29
Federal Election: Preaching Accountability But Ducking It
In plain common sense, public accountability is the obligation of authorities to explain publicly, fully and fairly, [...]