Canada's Upside-Down World of Public-Sector Ethics

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Research in Public Policy Analysis and Management

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Title:	Canada's Upside-Down World of Public-Sector Ethics
Author(s):	Andrew Stark
Volume:	14 Editor(s): Denis Saint-Martin, Fred Thompson ISBN: 978-0-76231-226-9 eISBN: 978-1-84950-355-6
Citation:	Andrew Stark (2006), Canada's Upside-Down World of Public-Sector Ethics, in Denis Saint-Martin, Fred Thompson (ed.) Public Ethics and Governance: Standards and Practices in Comparative Perspective (Research in Public Policy Analysis and Management, Volume 14), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.109-134
DOI:	10.1016/S0732-1317(05)14007-X (Permanent URL)
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Article type:	Chapter Item
Abstract:	Canada's institutions, by comparison with America's, have created a unique normative regime. When it comes to conflict of interest, the main problem in Canada has not been that private interests encumber governmental judgment, but that government itself, and in particular the publicly sourced emoluments controlled by the prime minister, can encumber the judgment of ministers and legislators. When it comes to campaign finance law, the problem is that parties are treated as if they are self-interested entities, while interest groups have often been treated as if they are parties. I explore the institutional causes and regulatory consequences of Canada's unique normative approach.