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 [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Special Issues category.
The Public Accountability Obligation of the Vancouver Island Health Authority Board of Directors
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 [...]
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 [...]
Vancouver Island Health Authority (VIHA) Public Accountability
This is the assessment for the citizens group on VIHA public accountability of the response by the VIHA Board to the group’s letter
All,
I’m aware that it’s been some time since we worked on the issue of the VIHA Board’s public accountability and all of us are likely pressured elsewhere on several fronts.
It seems to [...]
Citizens Must Hold Government to Account
This was the Citizens Accountability Group follow-up op-ed in the Victoria Times Colonist on the Ministry of health 27 March 2008
Citizens Must Hold Government to Account
Explaining policy to the people they serve is an obligation of public officials: a submission from the Citizens Accountability Group for health (Victoria)
The problem for citizens dealing with government is [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Accountability Horror Stories Persist on Military Accountabilty
This article was to point out that the directing minds of the military do not account publicly, fully and fairly. The same is now true of the RCMP.
Op-ed in the Victoria Times Colonist 8 June 2006
Accountability Horror Stories Persist on Military Accountabilty
David Pugliese’s article “Victoria widow betrayed, says ex-ombudsman” (TC May 16) was an [...]
Speaking Notes of H. E. McCandless as Witness before the Legislative Review Committee on Bill C-2
The author was called upon to speak to the Commons committee on the Bill called the Accountability Act that subsequently passed without accountability provisions.
Speaking Notes of H. E. McCandless as Witness before the Legislative Review Committee on Bill C-2
30 May 2006
This morning I wish simply to put before you the concept and logic of [...]
An Article on Accountability in a National Journal
[Originally published in October, 2003]
In Issue 2 of the Journal we noted that the 2001 Massey Lecturer chose not to say what she meant by “accountability” while using the word nearly a dozen times in the first 10 pages of her published Lectures, “The Cult of Efficiency.” The problem is not the academic rule that [...]
