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The purpose of this article is to examine the impacts of e-government in Canada on both inter-governmental relations and local governance. The rationale for such an examination stems from the emergence, over the past decade of two parallel discourses in public sector and governance reform: first, e-government as primarily a set of national and provincial strategies for public sector reforms, and secondly, a discourse has focused on the rising importance of municipal government and local governance systems. The main problem at present remains the absence of more holistic thinking on the need for a new enterprise, federated architecture for collaboration that entails an overhaul of the existing political arrangements of the federation. An additional lesson to draw at present is that the w...
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By Jerrard Gaertner, CA*IT/CISA, CGEIT, CISSP, I.S.P., ITCP
In mid February 2011, the Government of Canada disclosed that networks of the Department...
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On May 26, 2010, the Government of Canada released its long anticipated proposal for a Canadian Securities Act. The proposed Act draws on concepts cur...
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Complaint and Petition for Declaratory Judgment.
Donald R. Dinan, Washington, DC, argued the cause and filed the briefs for petitioner.
Douglas Lette...
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"Contract governance" is an advanced liberal program of governance that aims to unfold or "decouple" policy from service delivery and to manage outsou...
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A parliamentary committee is recommending significant changes to Canada's Lobbying Act. The proposed reforms would strengthen enforcement, remove the ...
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Despite the impressive body of scholarship dedicated to analyzing litigation involving the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in the Supreme Court of Canada, there remains an incomplete understanding of why these cases come to the Court. Notably absent from the literature is sustained analysis of why governments, the most frequent class of appellant, bring Charter cases to the Supreme Court. Recent work has addressed the decision to appeal by the U.S. federal government and state attorneys general and provides an excellent theoretical starting point. I use case data collected from interviews with federal government lawyers and law reports to test whether the Canadian federal government's decisions to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada in Charter cases are also "procedurally rational." I ...
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- FONEMED [R], a health information technology services company, reported today that the Government of Canada, through the At...
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Copyright 2008, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Originally published in Blakes Bulletin on Securities Regulation, July 2008
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