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

March 4: (Greene)

Readings:

• Mullan, chapters 1 & 2: ______

• Greene & Shugarman, Ch 1: ____Peter Skrypka ______

• Kernaghan & Langford, Ch 1: ____Victoria van Hemert______

March 11: (Greene)

Ethics in the public service, ethics education, and enforcement

Readings:

• Greene & Shugarman, Honest Politics Ch. 2: __Salvatore Paneduro & Brian West

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

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

______

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

______Nina Koumoudouras_____

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

______Angela Pizzimenti______

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

Accountability and Ethics in Government: (

______Jennifer Silver

March 18: (Greene)

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

Readings:

• Kernaghan & Langford, Ch 4: ______Radcliffe Rose______

• Greene & Shugarman, Ch 3: _____Angela Lamers______

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

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

______Yousef Salama______

• 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)

______Judy Ash______

March 25: (Greene)

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

Readings:

• Greene & Shugarman, Ch 4, 5 & 6: ______Alex Sirianni______

• 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)

______Peggy Lau______

• 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)

______Angela Yenssen______

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

______Keith Ramdial______

April 1: (Greene)

Office Politics and Whistle-blowing

Readings:

• Kernaghan & Langford, Ch. 5: ____Wendy Law

• Kernaghan & Langford, Ch. 6: John Chua

• Greene & Shugarman, Ch. 8: ____Erica Henri-Jackman______

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

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

web page) ______Judith Fiagbey______

April 8: (Greene)

Procedural Fairness, Natural Justice, and Administrative Tribunals

• Mullan, Ch 8: ______Diana Morris______

• Mullan,,Ch. 13: ______Heddy Cordova______

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

• Prof. Roger Rickwood will present on Dunsmuir

April 15: (Frederiksen)

Class 1: Administrative law remedies and standing to the courts

  • Remedies
  • Mullan, Ch. 16: ______Radcliffe Rose_____
  • Standing
  • Mullan, Ch. 18: _____Nina Koumoudouros______

April 22: (Frederiksen)

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

  • Limits on judicial review
  • Mullan, Ch. 20 (B): ______Wendy Lau______
  • The ombudsman
  • Mullan, Ch. 22: _____N. De Gouveia______
  • Other methods of judicial scrutiny of administrative action
  • Mullan Ch. 19: ______Peggy Lau______

April 29: (Frederiksen)

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

  • Privacy
  • Flaherty, Introduction, pp. 1-17: ______Sal Paneduro______
  • Branscomb, Introduction, pp. 1-8: ______Angela Pizzimenti______
  • Access to Information
  • Fung, Graham, and Weil, Chapters 1 & 2, pp. 1-34: ______
  • McDonald Commission Preliminary Report, pp. 1-7: __Jennifer Silver___
  • 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)

____Peter Skrypka____

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

______Yousef Salama______

May 6: (Frederiksen)

Class 4: Privacy

  • The Federal privacy regime
  • Flaherty, Chapters 19-21, pp. 243-262: ______Alex Sirianni_____
  • Drapeau and Racicot, Prologue, 6-i – 6-vi: ____Keith Ramdial______
  • Bennett, C.J., “The Privacy Commissioner of Canada: Multiple roles, diverse expectations and structural dilemmas” (2003) Canadian Public Administration 46.2 (summer) 218-242: ______Angela Lamers______
  • Website of the Privacy Commissioner: ____Diana Morris______
  • The Privacy Act and the PIPEDA: Victoria Van Hemert___
  • 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

______

  • Website of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario: : _____Judy Ash______
  • Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act Part III: http://www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/html/statutes/english/elaws_statutes_90f31_e.htm:

______

May 13: (Frederiksen)

Class 5: Access to Information

  • The Federal access to information regime
  • Drapeau and Racicot, Prologue, 1-I – 1-vii: ___Heddy Cordova____
  • Roberts, A, “Administrative discretion and the Access to Information Act: An ‘internal law’ on open government?” (2001), 45.2 Canadian Public Administration 175-194: ______Erica Henry-Jackman____
  • The Ontario access to information regime
  • Please look at the website of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario: : ______Judith Fiagbey______
  • Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act Part II: http://www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/html/statutes/english/elaws_statutes_90f31_e.htm: ______