Reading Time: 2 minutesDisponible en français. A regulation is a legally binding form of law made pursuant to legislative authority delegated by Parliament. It is usually made by an executive body, like the Governor in Council, a minister, department, board or commission, and… Read More ›
Reading Time: 2 minutesDisponible en français. The public sector strives to manage public funds responsibly and deliver programs effectively. Both internal and external audits play key roles in supporting these efforts. While complementary, they serve distinct purposes. External audit focuses primarily on providing an… Read More ›
Reading Time: 3 minutesDisponible en français. Various rules govern the use of English and French in the Canadian court system. This HillStudy focuses on the federal government’s role in the matter, looking particularly at the issues that relate to bilingualism in the Canadian court system. A number… Read More ›
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDisponible en français. Canada’s Constitution Act, 1867 does not assign transportation to either Parliament or the provincial legislatures. Instead, jurisdiction to regulate in relation to a specific transportation issue depends on which constitutional subject matter is engaged by the proposed law or regulation…. Read More ›
Reading Time: 2 minutesDisponible en français. Efforts to improve Canada’s organ donation and transplantation system have increased over the last 20 years. However, despite a significant increase in the number of organ transplants conducted in Canada between 2014 and 2024, the supply of organs does not meet… Read More ›
Reading Time: 2 minutesDisponible en français. This HillStudy provides an overview of the distribution of federal government revenues and expenditures among Canada’s provinces between 2015 and 2024, based on Statistics Canada’s provincial and territorial economic accounts. It compares the revenues collected by the… Read More ›
Reading Time: 2 minutesDisponible en français. Established in 1946, the International Court of Justice (ICJ or the Court) became the principal judicial organ of the United Nations (UN). It assumed the mandate of its predecessor, the Permanent Court of International Justice and is… Read More ›
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDisponible en français. Supply management, established in the 1970s for the dairy, poultry and egg sectors, is a key component of Canada’s agricultural policy. This system was introduced in response to major price instability in the agriculture sector in previous… Read More ›
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDisponible en français. This HillStudy has two objectives: to gain better insights into the types of issues identified by the Auditor General of Canada (AG) in performance audits of federal programs and to examine trends in the frequency of these issues. An… Read More ›
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDisponible en français. Data on urban and rural areas in Canada have been collected since the first census in 1871. For successive censuses, Canada was largely characterized as a predominantly rural country with a widely dispersed population and an economy centred on rural… Read More ›