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.
