Federal Accountability Act Becomes Law
The Federal Accountability Act has become law. This is fantastic news and hopefully will restore faith in politics in the wake of the Liberal sponsorship scandal. The Federal Accountability Act will:
- Reduce the opportunity to exert influence with money by banning corporate, union, and large personal political donations;
- Give Canadians confidence that lobbying is done ethically with a five-year lobbying ban on former ministers, their aides, and senior public servants;
- Ensure people who see problems in government know they can speak up by providing iron-clad protection for whistleblowers; and
- Ensure Canadians know how their money is spent by enhancing the power for the Auditor General to follow the money.
There’s nothing wrong with transparency in government as it benefits everyone. I had doubts it would even pass into law as it’s been held up in senate since April. Now, about those fixed terms.
December 13th, 2006 at 12:05 PM
It’s so much more than an accountability act; it’s called the ‘accountability act and ACTION PLAN’!
I’ve been given to understand that the ‘act’ portion refers to the statute, while the ‘action plan’ is the bit where Canada’s New Government don sparkly capes and masks and fight against opacity.
The leader and official mascot of the action plan team is called ‘invisible-boy’; he’s so transparent you can see right through him!
December 14th, 2006 at 11:50 AM
It’s an ACTION PLAN as well! I need one of those myself. It’s such a motivator.
“I should go pick up some groceries”
vs.
“My ACTION PLAN dictates that eating corn dogs daily is for chumps. Buy some real food, asshole”
I’ll take the latter.
December 17th, 2006 at 8:29 AM
Clarity act.
Transparency act.
They could have just won the all-out war on opacity by passing the “X-Ray Vision act”.
December 18th, 2006 at 10:50 AM
or the ‘not even there’ act.