POLSCI 1G06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Canada Border Services Agency, Parole Board Of Canada, Civil Service
24 Jun 2015
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{political science 1g06 2014 ii lecture 3b political control of the. Implementation: the bureaucracy will impartially implement legislative directives. The federal public sector employs roughly 486 000 people working in close to. Canada has 45 parent crown corporations (there are about 90,000 employees within) at the federal level, which have a total of 60 subsidiaries : they are government owned bodies that function (at least in some respects) These organizations perform a wide variety of regulatory, research, and advisory functions : crtc, canada border services agency, national parole board, considered the most hands-off" department, they have a degree of autonomy from government intervention. In some circumstances they can make quasi-legislative and quasi-judicial decisions: agents of parliament, auditor general, there to serve parliament. They are attached to parliament rather than the government of the day either because they are meant to be critical or because they are supposed to serve all members impartially .
