Canadian Parliamentary Review articles from December 1995

Canadian Parliamentary Review archives from December 1995

Maritime Union--we rise again.
December 22, 1995... The idea of a union of the Maritime provinces is older than Canada itself. For generations business, academic and political leaders in New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia have debated the relative merits of some sort of economic...

The flat tax: an idea whose time has come.
December 22, 1995... It has become an annual national nightmare. The end of April approaches. It is tax time, and Canadians spend untold hours of what could otherwise be enjoyable time working without pay for the Department of National Revenue. It does not...

Thoughts on public service accountability.
December 22, 1995... The topic of accountability goes to the very essence of the role of Parliament--to grant money to the Crown and determine how it is to be spent. The budget put forward by the government and approved by Parliament is the nation's prime policy...

The status of the caretaker convention in Canada.(Constitutional Conventions And Election Campaigns)
December 22, 1995... The autumn issue of the Review included an article by Professor Andrew Heard on the general nature of constitutional conventions and discussed the kinds of constraints that face a government in its last days. On September 25, Professor Heard...

The Commonwealth association for public administration and management.
December 22, 1995... This article draws attention to a new Commonwealth association for professional administrators established in August 1994 at a meeting in Charlottetown. ********** The new association was created because the forces of globalisation...

Time for a federal ombudsman.
December 22, 1995... In 1967 two provinces, Alberta and New Brunswick, became world leaders among democratic countries by appointing an ombudsman, as an agent of the legislature, to receive and remedy complaints about bureaucratic action (or inaction). Soon other...

A roundtable on ethics and conflict of interest.(Ontario, Newfoundland and Labrador, Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan)
December 22, 1995... In October 1995 the Special Joint Committee on Code of Conduct for Parliamentarians heard testimony from five provincial officials responsible for this area in their respective legislatures. The following is a condensed version of presentations...

Legislative reports.(Quebec, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Alberta, House of Commons, British Columbia, Senate)
December 22, 1995... NATIONAL ASSEMBLY Quebec In September 1995, the National Assembly held extraordinary sittings for the purpose of considering the following matters: the introduction of a bill respecting the future of Quebec; a motion by the Prime...

CPA activities: the Canadian scene.
December 22, 1995... Nineteenth Canadian Regional Seminar The Nineteenth Regional Seminar of the Canadian Region was held in Toronto from November 24-26, 1995. Parliamentarians (including a number of Speakers) from every province, as well as representatives...

Election results: Northwest Territories: October 16, 1995.(Brief article)
December 22, 1995... (All Members sit as Independents) Jim Antoine Nahendeh * Goo Arlooktoo Baffin South * Levi Barnabas High Arctic Charles Dent Yellowknife Frame Lake * Tommy Enuaraq Baffin Central * Roy Erasmus...