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RCMP ombudsman model : Modèle d'ombudsman de la GRC : rapport préparé pour le Groupe de travail sur la gouvernance et le changement culturel à la GRC

20 Dec 2007

The Ombudsman Idea The year 2007 is the 40th anniversary of the Ombudsman idea in Canada, having been initially adopted in the provinces on Alberta and New Brunswick. [...] In fact, such is the popularity of the Ombudsman idea that many private entities in more recent years have adapted the moniker in apparent effort to improve in the public’s eyes the image of their. [...] There is no need, however, to review in this report all of the details of the origins of the Ombudsman concept in Sweden nor of how the institution spread around the world including its arrival in Canada. [...] A most succinct description of the need for the Ombudsman institution is to be found in the federal government’s 1977 study of the Ombudsman which observed that, although citizens had “gained access to a wide range of government services and support systems” with the growth of government over the decades following the Great Depression, they had “also become increasingly vulnerable to the decisions [...] First, the fact that the Ombudsman would be an independent officer of the legislature, rather than being part of the public service subject to the executive chain of command, meant that the institution would have greater impartiality in operation.
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Authors

Hyson, Stewart

Pages
24
Published in
Canada

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