Planning and accountability in Employment and Immigration Canada

Article Abstract:

Although Employment and Immigration Canada is decentralized, it has developed flexible and effective planning and accountability processes. Its broad misssion is spelled out in both areas of its jurisdiction: (1) In regards to manpower: there should be enough workers to ensure Canada's economic growth and Canadians should be given opportunities to compete for and have access to jobs.(2) With respect to immigration: there should be a systematic flow of immigrants and visitors into Canada, bringing in skills and cultural diversity, according to Canada's humanitarian tradition. The components of the Department's planning and accountability process are operational planning, operation and control, corporate planning and feedback mechanisms. At the center of the planning process are the planning guidelines which are the formal method of providing direction in the field. Employment and ImmigrationCanada continues to evaluate its planning and implementation system as to its flexibility in the face of change, its ability to communicate the mission and philosophy effectively to employees and the general public, and to ensure its ongoing use in the management process.

Planning, Canada, Manpower policy, Emigration and immigration law, Immigration law, Canada. Department of Employment and Immigration

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Regulatory agencies and accountability: an Ontario perspective

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This article offers a reappraisal of the conventional wisdom surrounding the understanding of governmental control of quasi-judicial regulatory agencies. Authors such as Hodgetts and Schultz contend that such agencies exhibit serious deficiencies regarding such control, leading these agencies to be categorized as irresponsible. This article, through studies of major Ontario agencies, finds the conventional wisdom to be weak in explaining the power relations between the agencies and the Ontario government. An instrumentalist view of these relations is thus insufficient; rather, this viewpoint needs to be augmented with an administrative-cultural approach to fully understand the power relations at work. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Laws, regulations and rules, Ontario, Administrative agencies, Government agencies

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Responsiveness versus Accountability in Collaborative Federalism: The Canadian Experience

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Accountability in intergovernmental relations is a major concern. It may be that collaborative federalism measures have caused both federal and provincial governments to have reduced public accountability. Various suggestions for accountability improvements in light of Canada's collaborative federalism are reviewed, but many are based on faulty theories. They tend to use a parliamentory style of accountability on collaborative methods, but authority siting in the federal system renders that unlikely. It may well be that in order to protect the responsiveness of collaboration measures some loss of accountability must be sustained. More research on the costs and benefits of collaborative measures in Canada's government is needed.

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