Sentences with phrase «integrity commissioner»
An integrity commissioner is a person or organization responsible for ensuring honesty, fairness, and ethical conduct in a particular context. They enforce rules and regulations and investigate any acts of misconduct or corruption. Their role is to promote integrity and maintain a high standard of behavior within the given setting. Full definition
Integrity is further enhanced by amendments that ensure that the public and municipal councillors have access to integrity commissioners with a broadened role related to conflicts of interest and municipal codes of conduct.
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The vote in August 2010 adopted the recommendations of Toronto integrity commissioner Janet Leiper that the money be repaid because it violated the official Code of Conduct for councillors.
Liva says she'll be happy to get Leiper back into private practice when her term as integrity commissioner expires next year, since the intensity of the role has limited her ability to take on many clients.
The question under consideration at that vote was whether he should return a few thousand dollars» worth of donations that the city's integrity commissioner says were improperly gathered.
According to Nenshi's office, Sulatycky will be the first city integrity commissioner in western Canada.
Woolley takes the role alongside Allen Sulatycky, a former associate chief justice of the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta, who has been appointed as the city's independent integrity commissioner.
«She's so careful, she's the perfect integrity commissioner.
«Toronto is the leader in controversy,» says Robert Swayze, who acts as integrity commissioner for Mississauga, Ont., and five other municipalities.
Suzanne Craig left her own job with the City of Toronto in 2009 to take on integrity commissioner work on a part - time basis for Vaughan, Ont.
Among its resident arbitrators are Yves Fortier, former chairman of Ogilvy Renault LLP who recently left its successor firm Norton Rose Canada; Thomas Heintzman, counsel at McCarthy Tétrault LLP and, like Fortier, a former president of the Canadian Bar Association; alternative dispute resolution practitioner Stan Fisher; and former Ontario associate chief justice and integrity commissioner Coulter Osborne.
These included «Making Waves,» the March 2013 profile of Toronto's integrity commissioner Janet Leiper, which took the gold award in the best profile of a person category.
Some observers will see parallels to her term as integrity commissioner, since the rip current under the newly elected and emboldened Mayor Rob Ford always threatens to engulf the office.
The integrity commissioner also reported that Ford was in violation of three articles in the Code of Conduct, and that by asking for forgiveness of repaying the donations, could also be breaching the Lobbyists» Code of Conduct.
The integrity commissioner's report, which Hackman referred to as «excellent,» says it's often difficult for someone «who has blurred their roles» to identify the problem at hand.
Whether there was fault, in the present case, is for voters (and quite possibly the city's city's integrity commissioner) to decide.
Ford refused to do so, and he ignored six reminders from the integrity commissioner before she brought the issue back to council for the fateful Feb. 7 debate.
He recently filed a complaint with the integrity commissioner surrounding racist comments by a veteran Regional Councillor in Brampton, which led to the Councillor being found in violation of the code of conduct.
Hackland stressed the act states council «may» impose these penalties and the integrity commissioner was granted the power to recommend «other actions» including reimbursement of money.
Toronto's integrity commissioner Janet Leiper found Ford had violated the city's code of conduct and said he should reimburse the lobbyists to the tune of $ 3,150.
While sections 223.2 and 223.4 of the Municipal Act, 2001, S.O. c. 25 now provide municipalities with the opportunity to Institute codes of conduct and to appoint integrity commissioner's, no such Code of Conduct existed and no integrity commissioner was appointed in the County of Frontenac.
Twice a year, all the integrity commissioners meet to discuss emerging issues.
Leiper, the City of Toronto's integrity commissioner, gazes longingly at a watercolour by Canadian artist Pat Fairhead of an east coast surfing scene on the wall of her city office.
While Toronto remains the only municipality mandated by provincial statute to have an integrity commissioner, a number of other cities — 29 in Ontario — have made voluntary moves into the area.
That wasn't really the fault of the integrity commissioner, but the courts,» says Swayze.
Leiper points out it was the uniqueness of the integrity commissioner position that drew her to the job.
Before deciding what to do once her integrity commissioner role comes to an end, Leiper says she'll «recalibrate» with one of her trips to the ocean.
«We like to say in the accountability sphere that anything that raises the profile is good,» says Osgoode Hall Law School Dean Lorne Sossin, who took on the integrity commissioner job on an interim basis between Mullan's retirement and Leiper's appointment.
Although hiring an integrity commissioner may appear to be an added burden, municipalities have the option to hire an integrity commissioner with multiple municipalities to share, or may hire one on their own when needed or on a full time basis.
I recommend that the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act be amended to include a provision stating explicitly that nothing in the Act prevents a member of council from making submissions regarding a finding in a report by the integrity commissioner or regarding the imposition of a penalty under a municipal code of conduct.