PLEASE NOTE: The Citizens’ Circle
for Accountability has launched two new websites. The first is
the Centre
for Public Accountability (www.centreforpublicaccountability.org),
which contains accountability standards, definitions, steps in
holding to account, and the Journal
of Public Accountability. The
Centre is intended as a primer and resource on public accountability
for citizens and activist citizens concerned with how specific
authorities are carrying out their responsibilities. But it is
also for civil servants, legislators, academics and students concerned
with government operations.
The second site, a blog, is called Forging
Civic Trust (www.forgingcivictrust.org).
Its purpose is to be a resource for all those wishing to bring
about public accountability to a standard of public explanation
from authorities that citizens are entitled to see met. The blog
is also intended to be useful to the public accounting of civil
servants, elected representatives and corporate officials who claim
for their intentions that they default to the public good. The
blog will also be useful to the media in interviewing officials
and commenting on officials’ statements.
As a result, content on this site is no longer being updated.
All content (and much more) is now available on the new sites.
Content left here is intended as a placeholder until the search
engines have found all content and ranked pages accordingly.
Please update your links and bookmarks.
Contact Us
- For information about the Citizens' Circle for Accountability
and what citizens and elected representatives can do to achieve
public accountability please contact:
Henry McCandless, CCA General Convenor
Email: henrymccandless@accountabilitycircle.org
Phone: 250-370-5954
Fax: 250-370-5958
Address: 877 Newport Ave, Victoria, BC, Canada, V8S 5C8
Henry E. McCandless, MBA,CA has expert professional knowledge
in public accountability. In his professional auditing career
serving public accountability relationships, he has written on
the issue in professional and public sector journals and in newspaper
op-eds, and lectured on accountability in university graduate
schools.
Following university teaching, his long experience as a Principal
in the Office of the Auditor General of Canada helped him to develop
basic principles and public accounting standards for executive
governments and governing bodies of organizations. These are set
out in his 2002 book, A Citizen’s Guide to Public Accountability:
Changing the Relationship Between Citizens and Authorities, Foreword
by Dr. Ursula Franklin.
In 2006 he was an expert witness for the committees of the House
of Commons and Senate of Canada examining the government’s
Bill for its wrongly-named Federal Accountability Act. To offset
legislators’ limitations in holding to account effectively,
he is currently working to develop the capacity of citizens themselves
to hold authorities fairly and publicly to account.
- Technical issues with the website should be directed to:
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