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On the Money Trail: Investigating How Government Decisions are Made |
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| Format | Softcover | |
| Catalogue No. | 1-55002-424-8 | |
| Pages | 295 | |
| Language | English only | |
| Price | $29.99 | |
Written by Tim Chorney with Jay Innes. Edited by Criss Hajek and Elizabeth LeReverend. Published by Breakout Educational Network in association with Dundurn Press, 2003. Description: |
| As Canadians, we hand over a substantial portion of
our income to the government in the form of taxes, and we would like to believe
that our hard-earned money is being put to good use. But few of us ever try to
pinpoint exactly where our tax dollars go once they leave our hands, or to
figure out how decisions about public spending are made. Who decides which
programs and projects receive funding? How does the decision-making process
work? Armed with these questions, Jay Innes and a team of researchers set out to investigate how spending decisions were made for one specific government initiative: the Canada Infrastructure Works Program (CIWP). The researchers interviewed community leaders and businesspeople in various provinces about their experiences with CIWP, and spoke to the politicians and civil servants who administered and implemented the program -- the people who should have been most familiar with the decision-making process. Nevertheless, although three levels of government (federal, provincial and municipal) participated in the program, the researchers could find no one, at any level, who could tell them how and why decisions were made, or even who was responsible for making them! Their findings demonstrate just how little accountability there is in Canadian government today - a problem that should concern all Canadians who care about how their tax dollars are being spent. |
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