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Restoring Accountability - Recommendations

Table of Contents

• Preface

Part One: Background

• 1. Introduction
• 2. What Has Been Done
• 3. What Canadians Said

Part Two: Accountability

• 4. Parliament and Government
• 5. The Responsibilities and Accountabilities of Deputy Ministers
• 6. Strengthening the Chain of Accountability
• 7. The Prime Minister, Ministers and their Exempt Staff
• 8. The Privy Council Office and the Clerk

Part Three: Transparency

• 9. Advertising, Sponsorship Initiatives and Lobbying
• 10. Transparency and Better Management

Part Four: Conclusions and Recommendations

• 11. Rebalancing the Relationship Between Parliament and Government

Appendices

• A: Terms of Reference
• B: Advisory Committee Members
• C: Research Program Participants and Studies
• D: Written Submissions
• E: Roundtable Participants
• F: Consultation Questions
• G: Staff of the Commission

Restoring Accountability - Research Studies: Volume 1
Parliament, ministers and deputy ministers

Table of Contents

• Introduction
  Donald Savoie
• Parliament and Financial Accountability
  Peter Dobell and Martin Ulrich
• The Standing Committee on Public Accounts
  Jonathan Malloy
• Clarifying the Doctrine of Ministerial Responsibility As It
  Applies to the Government and Parliament of Canada
  David E. Smith
• Ministerial Staff:
  The Life and Times of Parliament's Statutory Orphans
  Liane E. Benoit
• The Deputy Minister's Role in the Government of Canada:
  His Responsibility and His Accountability
  Jacques Bourgault
• The Staffing and Evaluation of Canadian Deputy Ministers in
  Comparative Westminster Perspective:
  A Proposal for Reform
  Peter Aucoin

• Appendix A: List of Authors

Restoring Accountability - Research Studies: Volume 2
The public service and transparency

Table of Contents

• Introduction
  Donald Savoie
• Defining Boundaries:
  The Constitutional Argument for Bureaucratic Independence and
  Its Implication for the Accountability of the Public Service
  Lorne Sossin
• Encouraging "Rightdoing" and Discouraging Wrongdoing:
  A Public Service Charter and Disclosure Legislation
  Kenneth Kernaghan
• Two Challenges in Administration of the Access to Information Act
  Alasdair Roberts
• The Lobbyists Registration Act:
  Its Application and Effectiveness
  A. Paul Pross
• For the Want of a Nail:
  The Role of Internal Audit in the Sponsorship Scandal
  Liane E. Benoit and C.E.S. (Ned) Franks
• Federal Government Advertising and Sponsorships:
  New Directions in Management and Oversight
  Ian R. Sadinsky and Thomas K. Gussman

• Appendix A: List of Authors

Restoring Accountability - Research Studies: Volume 3
Linkages: responsibilities and accountabilities

Table of Contents

• Introduction
  Donald Savoie
• The Role of the Clerk of the Privy Council
  S.L. Sutherland
• Responsibility, Accountability and the Role of Deputy Ministers
  in the Government of Canada
  James Ross Hurley
• The Respective Responsibilities and Accountabilities of Ministers and Public Servants:
  A Study of the British Accounting Officer System and Its Relevance for Canada
  C.E.S. (Ned) Franks
• Ministerial Responsibility and the Financial Administration Act:
  The Constitutional Obligation to Account for Government Spending
  Stan Corbett
• Public Accountability of Autonomous Public Organizations
  B. Guy Peters

• Appendix A: List of Authors