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	<title>Forging Civic Trust, the Blog of the Citizens&#039; Circle for Accountability &#187; British Columbia</title>
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		<title>Public Accountability Requirements In Provincial Contracts With the RCMP</title>
		<link>http://forgingcivictrust.org/2011/10/public-accountability-requirements-in-provincial-contracts-with-the-rcmp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry McCandless</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Authorities' Accountabilities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Accountability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BC]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Solicitor General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Media portray accountability as a main issue in BC citizens’ lack of trust in the RCMP, and it is. But money accountability is not the most important issue. It is the performance standards to be met by RCMP officers on the ground . The BC Solicitor General, as the responsible Minister of the Crown, owes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At Election Time Vote for Accountability, Not Control by a Prime Minister</title>
		<link>http://forgingcivictrust.org/2011/04/at-election-time-vote-for-accountability-not-control-by-a-prime-minister/</link>
		<comments>http://forgingcivictrust.org/2011/04/at-election-time-vote-for-accountability-not-control-by-a-prime-minister/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gord Hooker</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Governance Accountabilities]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[British Columbia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governor General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HST]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ottawa Hill Times]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ursula Franklin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Op-ed in the Ottawa Hill Times March  28 2011.
In the recent BBC TV Doha debate on whether Wikileaks is helpful or harmful to society, a Qatar student rose to ask the debaters that included two Americans likely instructed by their State Department, “How can we trust a government if we don’t know what it’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Premier Must Serve Public Accountability</title>
		<link>http://forgingcivictrust.org/2011/03/premier-must-serve-public-accountability/</link>
		<comments>http://forgingcivictrust.org/2011/03/premier-must-serve-public-accountability/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry McCandless</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Governance Accountabilities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Columbia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elected officials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Premier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Victoria Times Colonist]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Citizens deserve to know what government’s true intentions are
(Op-ed printed by the Victoria Times Colonist 3 March 2011)
The premier, as first minister of the Crown, has the most important role in the province. The premier has a common-sense accountability duty to citizens that has been ignored by all first ministers ever since the parliamentary system [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recall in BC</title>
		<link>http://forgingcivictrust.org/2011/01/fairness-in-recall-attempts/</link>
		<comments>http://forgingcivictrust.org/2011/01/fairness-in-recall-attempts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 19:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gord Hooker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Governance Accountabilities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Columbia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elected officials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ida Chong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MLA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parliament]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recall]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Recall Should First Require MLAs to Account
A recent Victoria local newspaper editorial seemed to argue that recall of a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) of British Columbia should happen only if he or she has done something egregious and, if not, voters should wait until the next election. Simply re-fighting the last election through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Choosing the next Premier of British Columbia, who is the political head of the Province and who controls the Province’s executive government</title>
		<link>http://forgingcivictrust.org/2010/11/choosing-the-next-premier-of-british-columbia-who-is-the-political-head-of-the-province-and-who-controls-the-province%e2%80%99s-executive-government/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gord Hooker</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[British Columbia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Campbell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Premier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Victoria Times Colonist]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://forgingcivictrust.org/?p=180</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The current premier is resigning. Jack Knox, in his November 7 2010 column in the Victoria B.C. Times Colonist newspaper, appears to regard  &#8221;star quality&#8221; as the  major criterion for BC citizens to apply in choosing the next  premier. He surely had tongue in cheek, but his article reads otherwise.
Knox’s column nonetheless underscores the issue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Public Accountability of a Government Board</title>
		<link>http://forgingcivictrust.org/2009/10/the-public-accountability-of-a-government-board/</link>
		<comments>http://forgingcivictrust.org/2009/10/the-public-accountability-of-a-government-board/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry McCandless</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Governance Accountabilities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Columbia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cowichan Lodge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hospitals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vancouver Island Health Authority]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VIHA]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://forgingcivictrust.org/?p=68</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
This posting is to illustrate first steps taken by citizens holding to account members of a governing board. In this example it is the board members of a major Canadian provincial government agency,  the Vancouver Island Health Authority (VIHA). VIHA is charged with healthcare  on Vancouver Island and running the facilities for it, under the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Public Accountability of Governing Boards</title>
		<link>http://forgingcivictrust.org/2009/10/the-public-accountability-of-governing-boards/</link>
		<comments>http://forgingcivictrust.org/2009/10/the-public-accountability-of-governing-boards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry McCandless</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Accountability]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[British Columbia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governing Bodies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hospitals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boards of governors are responsible for running their organizations. Yet they are not taught what public accountability means and what the board’s own public accountability is.
A board’s public accountability means the obligation of board members to

state publicly before the fact what they intend the organization to bring about, for whom, and why they intend it
what [...]]]></description>
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