MPs to speak on accountability at PPX symposium: CCAF organizing MPs panel, workshop on performance reporting

April 13, 2007

MPS TO SPEAK ON ACCOUNTABILITY AT PPX SYMPOSIUM

CCAF organizing MPs panel, workshop on performance reporting

Want to hear first-hand what four key members of the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee have to say about public servants and accountability?

CCAF is organizing a panel at an upcoming Ottawa symposium designed to let you do just that. Committee chair Shawn Murphy, together with his committee colleagues John Williams, Jean-Yves Laforest and David Christopherson (invited), will share their views with attendees at the Eleventh Annual Symposium of the Performance and Planning Exchange (PPX) on May 16, 2007. CCAF Executive Director Michael Eastman will chair the panel.

The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has played a prominent role in a number of high profile controversies in recent years, including the activities of the former Privacy Commissioner, the Sponsorship affair, and the RCMP pension issue.

The PPX symposium, entitled Managing for Results: The Foundation of Planning and Reporting, will take place May 15 and 16, 2007 at the Hampton Inn and Conference Centre in Ottawa.

More information and online registration is available on the PPX website: www.ppx.ca.

At the PPX symposium session, four members of the PAC, each from a different party, will discuss the role of the committee in holding the government to account. They will set out what they expect from public servants – both in testimony before the PAC and in planning and performance reports. In the process, they will touch on such matters as the implications of the new Federal Accountability Act and the challenges of working in a partisan environment.

Performance reporting workshop

CCAF will also lead an interactive workshop on public performance reports at the symposium. We will highlight recent findings of our ongoing public performance reporting research and lead an exercise to discuss with participants how to incorporate these innovations into their reporting practices.

The workshop will support the objectives of CCAF's Improved Public Performance Reporting Program. This program is putting the foundation's considerable knowledge and expertise of performance reporting to work to help producers improve their reports and help users make more effective use of reports. CCAF believes good public performance reporting benefits organizational performance and strengthens accountability. More information on the program is available here.

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