Argus Posted August 20, 2005 Report Share Posted August 20, 2005 Here are a few of the agencies and departments of the federal government which, in my not very humble opinion Canada could do without. Some of them are useful. Some have aspects of their work which is useful but could be easily moved to another department. Most are agencies which, if they disappeared entirely, few Canadians would ever notice or miss. The federal government should be paying for what is necessary, not what is sort of useful or kind of nice to have. Atomic Energy of Canada Limited Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency Business Development Bank of Canada Canada Business Service Centres Canada Council for the Arts Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions Canada Firearms Centre Canada Industrial Relations Board Canada Lands Company Limited Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board Canadian Artists and Producers Professional Relations Tribunal Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Canadian Commercial Corporation Canadian Heritage Canadian Human Rights Commission Canadian Human Rights Tribunal Canadian Intergovernmental Conference Secretariat Canadian International Development Agency Canadian Pari-Mutuel Agency Cape Breton Growth Fund (CBGF Climate Change (Government of Canada) Commissioner of Official Languages, Office of the Enterprise Cape Breton Corporation Federal Science and Technology Community Financial Transaction and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC) Freshwater Fish Marketing Corporation Functional Communities of the Government of Canada Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) Indian Residential Schools Resolution Canada Industry Canada Interagency Advisory Panel on Research Ethics International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development International Development Research Centre International Trade Canada (ITCan) Law Commission of Canada Leadership Network, The Marine Atlantic National Advisory Council on Aging National Capital Commission (NCC) National Crime Prevention Strategy National Farm Products Council National Film Board of Canada National Joint Council National Literacy Secretariat National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Networks of Centres of Excellence Policy Research Initiative Public Service Human Resources Management Agency of Canada Senate of Canada Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Status of Women Canada Team Canada Inc. Technology Partnerships Canada Telefilm Canada Transportation Appeal Tribunal of Canada Western Economic Diversification Canada Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
August1991 Posted August 20, 2005 Report Share Posted August 20, 2005 The following link lists all recipients of federal government transfers where the value is greater than $100,000. The total in 2004 was over $25 billion. (The list is for actual disbursements.) A quick glance at the list is an eye-opener. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcqueen625 Posted August 20, 2005 Report Share Posted August 20, 2005 Here are a few of the agencies and departments of the federal government which, in my not very humble opinion Canada could do without. Some of them are useful. Some have aspects of their work which is useful but could be easily moved to another department. Most are agencies which, if they disappeared entirely, few Canadians would ever notice or miss. The federal government should be paying for what is necessary, not what is sort of useful or kind of nice to have.Atomic Energy of Canada Limited Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency Business Development Bank of Canada Canada Business Service Centres Canada Council for the Arts Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions Canada Firearms Centre Canada Industrial Relations Board Canada Lands Company Limited Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board Canadian Artists and Producers Professional Relations Tribunal Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Canadian Commercial Corporation Canadian Heritage Canadian Human Rights Commission Canadian Human Rights Tribunal Canadian Intergovernmental Conference Secretariat Canadian International Development Agency Canadian Pari-Mutuel Agency Cape Breton Growth Fund (CBGF Climate Change (Government of Canada) Commissioner of Official Languages, Office of the Enterprise Cape Breton Corporation Federal Science and Technology Community Financial Transaction and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC) Freshwater Fish Marketing Corporation Functional Communities of the Government of Canada Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) Indian Residential Schools Resolution Canada Industry Canada Interagency Advisory Panel on Research Ethics International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development International Development Research Centre International Trade Canada (ITCan) Law Commission of Canada Leadership Network, The Marine Atlantic National Advisory Council on Aging National Capital Commission (NCC) National Crime Prevention Strategy National Farm Products Council National Film Board of Canada National Joint Council National Literacy Secretariat National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Networks of Centres of Excellence Policy Research Initiative Public Service Human Resources Management Agency of Canada Senate of Canada Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Status of Women Canada Team Canada Inc. Technology Partnerships Canada Telefilm Canada Transportation Appeal Tribunal of Canada Western Economic Diversification Canada <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You forgot a couple: Heritage Canada, and the Office of the Governor General, along with their Provincial counterparts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argus Posted August 20, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 20, 2005 Here are a few of the agencies and departments of the federal government which, in my not very humble opinion Canada could do without. Some of them are useful. Some have aspects of their work which is useful but could be easily moved to another department. Most are agencies which, if they disappeared entirely, few Canadians would ever notice or miss. The federal government should be paying for what is necessary, not what is sort of useful or kind of nice to have.Atomic Energy of Canada Limited Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency Business Development Bank of Canada Canada Business Service Centres Canada Council for the Arts Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions Canada Firearms Centre Canada Industrial Relations Board Canada Lands Company Limited Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board Canadian Artists and Producers Professional Relations Tribunal Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Canadian Commercial Corporation Canadian Heritage Canadian Human Rights Commission Canadian Human Rights Tribunal Canadian Intergovernmental Conference Secretariat Canadian International Development Agency Canadian Pari-Mutuel Agency Cape Breton Growth Fund (CBGF Climate Change (Government of Canada) Commissioner of Official Languages, Office of the Enterprise Cape Breton Corporation Federal Science and Technology Community Financial Transaction and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC) Freshwater Fish Marketing Corporation Functional Communities of the Government of Canada Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) Indian Residential Schools Resolution Canada Industry Canada Interagency Advisory Panel on Research Ethics International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development International Development Research Centre International Trade Canada (ITCan) Law Commission of Canada Leadership Network, The Marine Atlantic National Advisory Council on Aging National Capital Commission (NCC) National Crime Prevention Strategy National Farm Products Council National Film Board of Canada National Joint Council National Literacy Secretariat National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Networks of Centres of Excellence Policy Research Initiative Public Service Human Resources Management Agency of Canada Senate of Canada Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Status of Women Canada Team Canada Inc. Technology Partnerships Canada Telefilm Canada Transportation Appeal Tribunal of Canada Western Economic Diversification Canada <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You forgot a couple: Heritage Canada, and the Office of the Governor General, along with their Provincial counterparts. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It's on the list as "Canadian Heritage" Yes, of course get rid it, the most useless agency of all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbacon Posted August 20, 2005 Report Share Posted August 20, 2005 How about the 600B that has been spent on Official Bi-Lingualism. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoop Posted August 20, 2005 Report Share Posted August 20, 2005 How about the 600B that has been spent on Official Bi-Lingualism. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Where does that figure come from? There is no way the Canadian Government has spent that much on official bilingualism. The fact that the amount you cite would neatly account for ALL of the national debt makes the figure that much more suspect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbacon Posted August 20, 2005 Report Share Posted August 20, 2005 Shoop the Total Public Debt is over 4,000,000,000,000.00, the total debt of QPP and CPP is 1.3Trillion in unfunded liability alone. The 600B is what has been spent in total since the inception of the Le Grande Design by Trudeau on Bi-lingualism. The 500 or so Billion is just the deficit not the total public indebtiness of all levels of Government in Canada. The Total Public debt is over $4,000,000,000,000.00 Loons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
August1991 Posted August 20, 2005 Report Share Posted August 20, 2005 rbacon, did you just make that 600B number up? In 1993, Scott Reid published Lament for a Notion. The book argues that while official bilingualism was a noble experiment, it has been an expensive failure."The government says how much it spends on language training," Reid says by way of example, "but it doesn't say how much it costs for people to cover the duties of (employees) who are away for training." There is a dizzying array of other difficult-to-measure costs, says Reid, from the expense of extended job searches to find bilingual people, to additional interest charges on a national debt that might have been lower without the bilingualism policy. In his book, Reid wrote that bilingualism had cost about $49 billion, all told. "I haven't done the numbers since then," Reid now says, though he has hired someone to update his findings. "It's only gone up, though. The government hasn't changed its approach." Some Web SiteThe cost is more like $60 billion, between 1969 and 2005. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest eureka Posted August 20, 2005 Report Share Posted August 20, 2005 I could think of a few agencies and causes that should be added to that list if we are to sustain a civilizes society. I do have some idea of the cost of Bilingualism without actual figures. I would not be bothered working it out since I consider it money well spent. I have some idea because a colleague of mine in some things, a Professor of finance at Concordia University, did do a study to establish the costs to the economy. The cost also had offsetting factors that ameliorated the impact somewhat. Official Bilingualism needs to be overhauled. There, I agree with Argus about the demands on the Civil Service. Overall though, the policy is great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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