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Sign-up sheet for class presentations, PPAL 6120, Tuesday evening

March 3: (Greene)

Readings:

• Mullan, chapters 1 & 2: ______

• Greene & Shugarman, Ch 1: ___Lisa Peacock______

• Kernaghan & Langford, Ch 1: __Heather McMartin______

March 10: (Greene)

Ethics in the public service, ethics education, and enforcement

Readings:

• Greene & Shugarman, Honest Politics Ch. 2: ____David Rudoler______

• Tuesday class, Honest Politics, Chapter 7 (Prof. Shugarman, primary author

of Chapter 7, will be present for the first hour of the Tuesday class)

______Andrew Tapp______

• Kernaghan & Langford, The Responsible Public Servant, Ch. 2 & 3

_____Helen Wong______

• Values and Ethics Code for the Public Service (Canada) (class web page)

______Marlon Rhoden______

• 2003 November Report of the Auditor General of Canada, Chapter 2,

Accountability and Ethics in Government: __Glenda Providence___

March 17: (Greene)

Case studies of typical ethics dilemmas facing public servants & their resolution

Readings:

• Kernaghan & Langford, Ch 4-6:_____Smtiri Gyawali______

• Greene & Shugarman, Andrew Harper______

• Wednesday class, Honest Politics, Chapter 7 (Prof. Shugarman, primary author

of Chapter 7, will be present for the first hour of the Wednesday class)

______Adams Asamoah – error you are in Tuesday class______

• Excerpts from Maureen Mancuso, Michael Atkinson, André Blais, Ian Greene and Neil Nevitte. A Question of Ethics: Canadians Speak Out About Their Politicians. Oxford University Press Canada, 1998; Second Edition, 2006 (to be distributed in class)

______Umwali Sollange______

March 24: (Greene)

Conflicts of interest (case studies) independent ethics commissioners, undue influence and lobbyists

Readings:

• Greene & Shugarman, Ch 4, 5 & 6: ______Tathi Jay______

• Greene & Shugarman, “Commission of Inquiry into the Sponsorship Program and Advertising Activities, phase I Report and Phase II Report.” 49 (2) Canadian Public Administration (Summer 2006), 220-232 (to be distributed in class)

______Mete Yorgan______

• Excerpts from Janet Hiebert, Ed., Political Ethics: A Canadian Perspective. Vol. 12 of Research Studies of the Royal Commission on Electoral Reform and Party Financing, 1992. (Toronto: Dundurn Press in cooperation with the Royal Commission on Electoral Reform and Party Financing, 1992.) (to be distributed in class)

______Vikki Pezzo______

• Lobbyist regulation legislation federally, provincially & municipally – excerpts from legislation (to be distributed in class or posted on-line)

______Samina Esmail______

March 31: (Greene)

Office Politics and Whistle-blowing

Readings:

• Kernaghan & Langford, Ch. 5 & 6: ______Julia Gallo______

• Greene & Shugarman, Ch. 8:______Genevieve Thompson______

• Ian Greene, “Public service ethics and office politics.” 22 Optimum (1991), 54 (to be distributed in class): ______Muhamad Gondal______

• Annual Report of the Public Service Integrity Commissioner (Canada) (class

web page) ______Adil Dossa______

April 7: (Greene)

Procedural Fairness, Natural Justice, and Administrative Tribunals

• Mullan, Ch 8: ______Minh Tran______

Mullan,,Ch. 13: ______Stelios Kritikakos & Dennis Governor__

Mullan, Ch 15 Parts A, B and C (pp. 350 – 372): ______Birgit Heilig______

April 14: (Frederiksen)

Class 1:Administrative law remedies and standing to the courts

  • Remedies
  • Mullan, Ch. 16: ______
  • Standing
  • Mullan, Ch. 18: ______David Rudoler______

April 21: (Frederiksen)

Class 2: Administrative law: limits on judicial view and alternative approaches

  • Limits on judicial review
  • Mullan, Ch. 20 (B): ______Birgit Heilig______
  • The ombudsman
  • Mullan, Ch. 22: ______Lisa Peacock______
  • Other methods of judicial scrutiny of administrative action
  • Mullan Ch. 19: ______Heather McMartin______

April 28: (Frederiksen)

Class 3: Introduction to Access to Information and Privacy Legislation in Canada

  • Privacy
  • Flaherty, Introduction, pp. 1-17: ______Muhammad Gondal______
  • Branscomb, Introduction, pp. 1-8: ______Samina Esmail______
  • Access to Information
  • Fung, Graham, and Weil, Chapters 1 & 2, pp. 1-34: ___Adil Dossa_____
  • McDonald Commission Preliminary Report, pp. 1-7: ___Glenda Providence_
  • 1977 Green Paper excerpts, from Drapeau and Racicot, pp. 13-3–13-9:

______

  • Constitutional right to privacy
  • Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1967) (Mr. Justice Douglas’ decision)

__Dennis Governor____

  • Hunter v. Southam Inc., [1984] 2 S.C.R. 145 (paragraphs 14-15, 19-25)

______Julia Gallo______

May 5: (Frederiksen)

Class 4: Privacy

  • The Federal privacy regime
  • Flaherty, Chapters 19-21, pp. 243-262: _____Andrew Harper______
  • Drapeau and Racicot, Prologue, 6-i – 6-vi: __Vikki Pezzo______
  • Bennett, C.J., “The Privacy Commissioner of Canada: Multiple roles, diverse expectations and structural dilemmas” (2003) Canadian Public Administration 46.2 (summer) 218-242: ______Genevieve Thompson______
  • Website of the Privacy Commissioner: ______Stelios Kritikakos______
  • The Privacy Act and the PIPEDA: ___Steve Durant___
  • The Ontario privacy regime
  • Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, The State of Privacy and Data Protection in Canada, the European Union, Japan and Australia

__Smriti Gryawali

Website of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario: _____Mete Yorgan____

  • Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act Part III:

______

May 12: (Frederiksen)

Class 5: Access to Information

  • The Federal access to information regime
  • Drapeau and Racicot, Prologue, 1-I – 1-vii: ______
  • Roberts, A, “Administrative discretion and the Access to Information Act: An ‘internal law’ on open government?” (2001), 45.2 Canadian Public Administration 175-194: ____Umwali Sollange______
  • The Ontario access to information regime
  • Please look at the website of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario: ______Rathi Jay______
  • Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act Part II: ______Marlon Rhoden______