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Introduction & Table Of Cases, Innis Christie, A Paul Pross
Introduction & Table Of Cases, Innis Christie, A Paul Pross
Dalhousie Law Journal
Commissions of inquiry have been popular mechanisms with Canadian governments. Despite a widespread view that they are used principally to delay action while removing embarrassment from the immediate vicinity of governments, it is a fact that commissions of inquiry have repeatedly - and often highly successfully - served as vehicles for analyzing policy, for evaluating outworn or failed policy, for identifying a consensus about policy and for building support for new policy directions. They have brought facts to light both about specific incidents and about matters of policy concern; facts as diverse as what actually happened at a given time …
Contributions Of Commissions Of Inquiry To Policy Analysis: An Evaluation, Peter Aucoin
Contributions Of Commissions Of Inquiry To Policy Analysis: An Evaluation, Peter Aucoin
Dalhousie Law Journal
Commissions of inquiry appointed to analyze major matters of public policy constitute an important organizational instrument in governance for essentially three reasons. First, their establishment enables decision-makers in government to delay or postpone decisions without being criticized for doing nothing at all. Policy analysis in this circumstance may be an excuse for a "non-decision", but at the least it ensures that the issue at hand stays on the policy agenda in a certain fashion. Second, such commissions provide for a process whereby the views of special interest groups and the interested public can be presented in a forum that is …