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PAC orders overhaul of ministerial responsibility doctrine

House Public Accounts Committee unanimously endorses U.K. accounting officer model

A House committee has unanimously recommended that Canada should adopt the accountability system used in the mother of Parliament at Westminster, where, for over a century, deputy ministers--who are called accounting officers--hold powers in their own right and are accountable to Parliament for t...

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