Print this page Accountability and Transparency in Government
Accountability is the “concomitant of responsibility and requires an office holder to inform and explain how and how well responsibilities or powers or authority have been exercised; it also involves accepting personal consequences or sanctions for problems that could have been avoided or were not corrected in a timely fashion” James Ross Hurley
As public servants we have professional accountability to our Senior Management Teams and ultimately to the people of the municipality, province and/or the country we serve. There have been instances where this accountability has been replaced by political expediency; when there was a failure to speak the truth to those in power; or an improper grasp of the centrality of values of ethics within each respective level of government in Canada.
The presentations of the speakers are attached below:
1. Sarah Delicate and Bryan Bell from Bell, Browne, Molnar and Delicate Consulting
2. Jim Hadjiyianni, Senior Manager, BPS Supply Chain Secretariat, Ontario Ministry of Finance
3. Frank Duffy, Deloitte
4. Jim McCarter, Auditor General of Ontario
