Accountability

Does The Climate Movement Have A Leader?

David Gray-Donald — Tue, 16 Sep 2014 18:11:32 +0000

A critique of 350.org & Bill McKibben

[This story first appeared on Uneven Earth]

Climate change is big. As is the climate movement seeking to confront the issue, though it is not yet as powerful as the fossil fuel industry.

Attend the Supreme Court of Canada on Friday April 19th, 2013 (9 a.m.)

amy — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:18:46 +0000

Subhead:

We Want Justice For Our Communities, Not Police Impunity!

Fri Apr 19

city:

Ottawa

Venue:

Supreme Court of Canada

Address:

301 Wellington Street

organizer contact:

514 812 6817

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Link:

justiceforlevi.org

For Immediate Release

Call out for Court Support and Media Attendance

Interview with Sonny Yeung

DannyLiberty — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:34:22 +0000

on Word of Mouth Wednesday 7-8 pm CKLN 88.1 FM Toronto

July 10th 2010 Civil Liberties Now! rally speaking with Sonny Yeung, candidate for Mayor of Toronto 2010, after the march in support of a PUBLIC INQUIRY into the G20, check out the video...

Province's Receiving Federal Transfer Payments

afterfostercare — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:58:32 +0000

I recently watched a Public Accounts Committee meeting at the Federal Government Level on March 03, 2009 (don't worry, I'll return to provincial government soon) where they reviewed the Audit Report of the Federal Auditor General, Sheila Frazer for 2008.

Chapter 1 of that report is titled "A Study of Federal Transfers to Provinces and Territories" and it examined "the three main mechanisms used by the federal government to transfer funds to the provinces and territories"

According to the report, it also "looked at the nature and extent of conditions attached to these transfers". The purpose was to "inform parliamentarians about the federal government's transfers to the provinces and territories" but not to include recommendations as it was only a descriptive study as opposed to an audit.

I learned from that report and the committee meeting that Billions of Dollars are distributed to the provincial governments to assist them in providing services to their local jurisdictions, but that there are no conditions placed on those multi-billion dollar transfers.

So there is no accountability for the expenditure of those funds at the Federal Level, and to make things worse, as a citizen who wanted to know how much of those federal transfer payments went to a particular Ministry, it is virtually impossible to find out.

The reason being that the money is transfered into the province's CRF, which is a "Consolidated Revenue Fund" and once it goes into that fund, other funds are also deposited into that CRF from provincial sources such as licensing fees etc. and the provincial programs are funded from that fund, therefore breaking the trail of accountability back to the federal government in regard to how that money is being spent.