Regulations Crown Corporations And Administrative Tribunals

This is the third of six volumes dealing with Law, Society and the Economy (see list in back of book), included in the Collected Research Studies of the Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada. This volume surveys administrative law in its various manifestations and considers new themes and issues that are likely to affect the subject. Challenging generally accepted views, the contributors discuss such topics as the structures and processes of Canadian administrative tribunals, Crown corporations as an instrument of economic intervention, and the use of delegated legislation as the preferred instrument of government regulations.

"This report discusses the difficult issue of what role, if any, partisanship should play in the appointments process. The report will outline the formal mechanisms for making board appointments in Canadian common law jurisdictions and outline the issues that arise with the less formal mechanisms. It will examine how concerns with appointments have emerged in Canadian jurisdictions and how governments have changed their appointments processes in response to the concerns raised and will describe publicly available information on the current appointments process in Manitoba. This discussion will start with Nova Scotia, which in 2002, was the first jurisdiction to develop a comprehensive appointments policy and will describe what other jurisdictions have done, in the order of when each jurisdiction made significant changes to its appointments process. Following a review of the unreformed jurisdictions, the extraordinarily comprehensive reforms in the United Kingdom will be described. The final part of this report will examine more closely the elements of appointments policies and make recommendations on a new appointments policy for Manitoba."--Document.

"Conflict of interest is one aspect of public-sector ethics, and Canadian legislatures and governments have developed legislation and codes of conduct that show a wide variety of approaches to the issue. This paper will focus on the most important developments at the federal level. Although the emphasis here is on federal legislators, other federal public officials - such as public-service workers and judges as well as members of administrative agencies, tribunals and Crown corporations - are also affected by conflict-of-interest rules"--Page 1