Author: Canada. Commission of Inquiry into the Facts of Allegations of Conflict of Interests Concerning the Honourable Sinclair M. Stevens
Publisher: Ottawa, Ont. : Supply and Services Canada
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Sinclair Stevens resigned from the federal cabinet in May 1986, in the wake of conflict of interest allegations in reference to his private financial dealings with Magna International Inc., the Canada Development Investment Corporation, some Bay Street (Toronto) investment firms, Hyundai Corporation and his failure to comply with Conflict of Interest Guidelines. Report summarizes the allegations, Mr. Stevens private business interests before he became Minister, and his Ministerial duties. Contains descriptions of York Centre group of companies, and of the steps taken by the Minister in September 1984 to comply with Guidelines. Examines the role, nature and extent of communication Shirley Walker and Noreen Stevens had with the Minister and discusses at length the allegations and the extent to which Mr. Stevens was still involved in private business matters. Makes general recommendations for reforming the Guidelines.
Commission of Inquiry Into the Facts of Allegations of Conflict of Interest Concerning the Honourable Sinclair M. Stevens
Author: Canada. Commission of Inquiry into the Facts of Allegations of Conflict of Interests Concerning the Honourable Sinclair M. Stevens
Publisher: Ottawa, Ont. : Supply and Services Canada
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Sinclair Stevens resigned from the federal cabinet in May 1986, in the wake of conflict of interest allegations in reference to his private financial dealings with Magna International Inc., the Canada Development Investment Corporation, some Bay Street (Toronto) investment firms, Hyundai Corporation and his failure to comply with Conflict of Interest Guidelines. Report summarizes the allegations, Mr. Stevens private business interests before he became Minister, and his Ministerial duties. Contains descriptions of York Centre group of companies, and of the steps taken by the Minister in September 1984 to comply with Guidelines. Examines the role, nature and extent of communication Shirley Walker and Noreen Stevens had with the Minister and discusses at length the allegations and the extent to which Mr. Stevens was still involved in private business matters. Makes general recommendations for reforming the Guidelines.
Publisher: Ottawa, Ont. : Supply and Services Canada
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Sinclair Stevens resigned from the federal cabinet in May 1986, in the wake of conflict of interest allegations in reference to his private financial dealings with Magna International Inc., the Canada Development Investment Corporation, some Bay Street (Toronto) investment firms, Hyundai Corporation and his failure to comply with Conflict of Interest Guidelines. Report summarizes the allegations, Mr. Stevens private business interests before he became Minister, and his Ministerial duties. Contains descriptions of York Centre group of companies, and of the steps taken by the Minister in September 1984 to comply with Guidelines. Examines the role, nature and extent of communication Shirley Walker and Noreen Stevens had with the Minister and discusses at length the allegations and the extent to which Mr. Stevens was still involved in private business matters. Makes general recommendations for reforming the Guidelines.
Conflict of Interest in American Public Life
Author: Andrew Stark
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674012134
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Stark draws on legal, moral, and political thought to analyze several decades of debate over conflict of interest in American public life. He offers new ways of interpreting the controversies about conflict of interest, explains their prominence in American political combat, and suggests how we might make them less venomous and intractable.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674012134
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Stark draws on legal, moral, and political thought to analyze several decades of debate over conflict of interest in American public life. He offers new ways of interpreting the controversies about conflict of interest, explains their prominence in American political combat, and suggests how we might make them less venomous and intractable.
Factual inquiry
Author: Commission of Inquiry into Certain Allegations Respecting Business and Financial Dealings Between Karlheinz Schreiber and the Right Honourable Brian Mulroney (Canada)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Governmental investigations
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Governmental investigations
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Motivating Ministers to Morality
Author: Ian Holland
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351784951
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
This title was first published in 2002: Political ethics is a rapidly growing field in disciplines such as political science, philosophy, applied ethics and public policy and it has become a major topic in current affairs’ reporting of politics. This book discusses the most prominent subjects - and occasional victims - of the ethics debate: government ministers. It is the first major work to discuss institutional reforms around the world that target ministerial morality and asks: how are these reforms influencing the motivation and conduct of the most powerful of our politicians? The book provides unique insights into ministerial behaviour and the changing role of institutions in influencing the ethics of the executive, with analyses from around the world. Contributors to the volume include international high-profile players in political ethics. They include Lord Nolan, the first Chairman of Britain's Joint Parliamentary Committee on Standards in Public Life; Professor Robert J. Jackson, a leading Canadian political scientist instrumental in establishing the Canadian Office of the Ethics Counsellor; and Associate Professor Noel Preston, the leading commentator on ethics in Australian politics, who has been involved in developing a number of its ethical regimes.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351784951
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
This title was first published in 2002: Political ethics is a rapidly growing field in disciplines such as political science, philosophy, applied ethics and public policy and it has become a major topic in current affairs’ reporting of politics. This book discusses the most prominent subjects - and occasional victims - of the ethics debate: government ministers. It is the first major work to discuss institutional reforms around the world that target ministerial morality and asks: how are these reforms influencing the motivation and conduct of the most powerful of our politicians? The book provides unique insights into ministerial behaviour and the changing role of institutions in influencing the ethics of the executive, with analyses from around the world. Contributors to the volume include international high-profile players in political ethics. They include Lord Nolan, the first Chairman of Britain's Joint Parliamentary Committee on Standards in Public Life; Professor Robert J. Jackson, a leading Canadian political scientist instrumental in establishing the Canadian Office of the Ethics Counsellor; and Associate Professor Noel Preston, the leading commentator on ethics in Australian politics, who has been involved in developing a number of its ethical regimes.
The Law of Loyalty
Author: Lionel Smith
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019766458X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
This monograph elucidates common legal principles underlying the use of juridical powers. It addresses both public law and private law, and examines both the common law and the civil law. It aims to provide a theory of how Western law regulates the situations in which we hold legal powers, not for ourselves, but for and on behalf of others. It does this by elucidating the justificatory principles that are attracted in those situations. These principles include that other-regarding powers can only properly be used for the purposes for which they were granted; that they should not be used when the holder is in a conflict of self-interest and duty, or a conflict of duty and duty; and that the holder is presumptively accountable for any profits extracted from the other-regarding role. These principles stand behind the detailed legal rules that govern these relationships in multiple legal systems and in multiple public and private settings. In private law this includes the powers of trustees, corporate directors, agents and mandataries; in public law it includes all powers held for public purposes, whether they be held by the Prime Minister, by a police officer, or by a judge.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019766458X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
This monograph elucidates common legal principles underlying the use of juridical powers. It addresses both public law and private law, and examines both the common law and the civil law. It aims to provide a theory of how Western law regulates the situations in which we hold legal powers, not for ourselves, but for and on behalf of others. It does this by elucidating the justificatory principles that are attracted in those situations. These principles include that other-regarding powers can only properly be used for the purposes for which they were granted; that they should not be used when the holder is in a conflict of self-interest and duty, or a conflict of duty and duty; and that the holder is presumptively accountable for any profits extracted from the other-regarding role. These principles stand behind the detailed legal rules that govern these relationships in multiple legal systems and in multiple public and private settings. In private law this includes the powers of trustees, corporate directors, agents and mandataries; in public law it includes all powers held for public purposes, whether they be held by the Prime Minister, by a police officer, or by a judge.
Fiduciaries and Trust
Author: Paul B. Miller
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110848042X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
Explores the interactions of fiduciary law and personal and political trust in private, public and international law.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110848042X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
Explores the interactions of fiduciary law and personal and political trust in private, public and international law.
Corruption and Governmental Legitimacy
Author: Jonathan Mendilow
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498533981
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
This volume considers corruption as a multidimensional, complex phenomenon in which various forms of corruption may overlap at any given time. Extending the seemingly paradoxical notion of “legal corruption” to such settings as the USA, Spain, and the Czech Republic, the book seeks to augment our understanding of corruption in democracies by focusing on conduct that is considered by large segments of the population to be corrupt even though they are not explicitly defined as such by the law or the governing elites. Such behaviors are not often captured by corruption perception indexes or identified by scholars who regard corruption as a single category—usually restricted to bribery. However, they are liable to incur a heavy price both in terms of trust in specific governments and of general system support. As illustrated by developments in Spain, the Czech Republic, and the corrosive presidential campaign of 2016 in the USA, these actions are liable to endanger both the quality and actual viability of democratic orders. This volume looks into the possibilities of legal reforms and anticorruption campaigns aiming to correct the consequences of such corruption on government legitimacy. A comparison between the anticorruption campaigns in the competitive authoritarian context of Russia and the fully authoritarian setting of China helps to identify both the difficulties and the possibilities of such efforts in democratic regimes.
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498533981
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
This volume considers corruption as a multidimensional, complex phenomenon in which various forms of corruption may overlap at any given time. Extending the seemingly paradoxical notion of “legal corruption” to such settings as the USA, Spain, and the Czech Republic, the book seeks to augment our understanding of corruption in democracies by focusing on conduct that is considered by large segments of the population to be corrupt even though they are not explicitly defined as such by the law or the governing elites. Such behaviors are not often captured by corruption perception indexes or identified by scholars who regard corruption as a single category—usually restricted to bribery. However, they are liable to incur a heavy price both in terms of trust in specific governments and of general system support. As illustrated by developments in Spain, the Czech Republic, and the corrosive presidential campaign of 2016 in the USA, these actions are liable to endanger both the quality and actual viability of democratic orders. This volume looks into the possibilities of legal reforms and anticorruption campaigns aiming to correct the consequences of such corruption on government legitimacy. A comparison between the anticorruption campaigns in the competitive authoritarian context of Russia and the fully authoritarian setting of China helps to identify both the difficulties and the possibilities of such efforts in democratic regimes.
Canadian Government and Politics - Seventh Edition
Author: Robert J. Jackson
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1770487409
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Canadian Government and Politics delivers an up-to-date and concise introduction to Canada’s political institutions, processes, and issues. The text integrates theory, history, Census data, and current affairs to give students an orderly picture of the wide-ranging landscape of Canadian government and politics. This seventh edition includes coverage and analysis of the 2019 general election, as well as a preview of the new Canadian government. It also adds exciting material on Canada’s cultural landscape, institutions, and policies, along with a new chapter on Indigenous Peoples. Other chapters examine the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government, the electoral system, bureaucracy, Québec nationalism, foreign policy, and much more. The authors provide trenchant coverage of many key issues of concern to Canadians, including regionalism, nationalism, climate change, defense policy, Indigenous Peoples’ rights, minority rights, pipelines, and the USMCA trade deal. These topics are addressed by way of fair-minded impartial discussions, aimed to foster a vital and optimistic perspective on Canadian politics that will encourage critical thinking and active citizenship.
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1770487409
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Canadian Government and Politics delivers an up-to-date and concise introduction to Canada’s political institutions, processes, and issues. The text integrates theory, history, Census data, and current affairs to give students an orderly picture of the wide-ranging landscape of Canadian government and politics. This seventh edition includes coverage and analysis of the 2019 general election, as well as a preview of the new Canadian government. It also adds exciting material on Canada’s cultural landscape, institutions, and policies, along with a new chapter on Indigenous Peoples. Other chapters examine the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government, the electoral system, bureaucracy, Québec nationalism, foreign policy, and much more. The authors provide trenchant coverage of many key issues of concern to Canadians, including regionalism, nationalism, climate change, defense policy, Indigenous Peoples’ rights, minority rights, pipelines, and the USMCA trade deal. These topics are addressed by way of fair-minded impartial discussions, aimed to foster a vital and optimistic perspective on Canadian politics that will encourage critical thinking and active citizenship.
Honest Politics Now
Author: Ian Greene
Publisher: James Lorimer & Company
ISBN: 1459412419
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
For many, honest politics is an oxymoron. Yet there have been enormous changes in Canadian public life in the past two decades to identify and address expectations that politicians and officials will act honestly and in the public interest. Using high-profile political scandals as case studies, this book explores the standards of accountability to which Canadian politicians are now being held. Among the case studies addressed are the gas plant scandal in Ontario, the "Railgate" scandal in B.C., the Robocalls affair, the "sponsorship scandal", Stephen Harper's attack on the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and the saga of Rob Ford. This book critically analyzes changes introduced and implemented over the last twenty years intended to deal with ethical issues in politics, including the boom of independent ethics commissioners, the regulation of lobbyists in Canada, and federal efforts to protect whistle-blowers. Contributors to the book include experts in all these areas, drawn from across the country.
Publisher: James Lorimer & Company
ISBN: 1459412419
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
For many, honest politics is an oxymoron. Yet there have been enormous changes in Canadian public life in the past two decades to identify and address expectations that politicians and officials will act honestly and in the public interest. Using high-profile political scandals as case studies, this book explores the standards of accountability to which Canadian politicians are now being held. Among the case studies addressed are the gas plant scandal in Ontario, the "Railgate" scandal in B.C., the Robocalls affair, the "sponsorship scandal", Stephen Harper's attack on the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and the saga of Rob Ford. This book critically analyzes changes introduced and implemented over the last twenty years intended to deal with ethical issues in politics, including the boom of independent ethics commissioners, the regulation of lobbyists in Canada, and federal efforts to protect whistle-blowers. Contributors to the book include experts in all these areas, drawn from across the country.