SOC 4900 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Public Safety Canada, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, October Crisis
26 Nov 2015
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Position created in 1966, officially created in 1892. Primary responsibilities: domestic security; rcmp and correctional services: csis was added in 1984, when it was created. Policy related to public safety and security: develop policy. Provide policy guidance to police, corrections, parole, and other agencies in criminal justice. Provide cabinet government feedback from department and the agencies under the department"s supervision. Supervise at an arm"s length carious agencies in the criminal justice and safety system: carries information, finding of those agencies, answer to the legislation. Attorney general has primary responsibility for policy related to criminal justice and is the more senior ministry if there is an overlap (attorney general > solicitor general) Minister deputy minister public safety canada. Created in 2003: combined the customs and revenue agency with citizens and immigration and. Main responsibilities: criminal investigations and prosecutions, intelligence, border watch. Created in 1984: response to the mcdonald commission on rcmp activities in the 1970s.
