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EVERYDAY ACCOUNTABILITY
Answer while the mandate is being used
Reports, accessible records, questions, financial disclosure and reasoned decisions let members evaluate power before a crisis develops.
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is more than punishment
Most accountability should happen before discipline is necessary. Members need information, records, explanations, review and the ability to correct a course. Discipline begins when an actual violation must be determined fairly.
ILLUSTRATION / VISUAL — TO BE ADDED
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POLITICAL ACCOUNTABILITY
Members should be able to review a mandate while it exists
A long elected mandate should include structured opportunities for to review the work of provincial leadership.
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HIGH THRESHOLD
Ending a mandate should not be easy
Political instability is not accountability.
Moving from serious dissatisfaction to a challenge to an elected mandate should require broad support across .
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WHO DECIDES
The body that gave the mandate should decide whether it ends
A review process can identify a serious loss of confidence.
It should not casually turn an intermediate body into a replacement Convention.
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DUE PROCESS
Discipline requires a fair process
A person accused of violating the rules should know the allegation, have an opportunity to respond and receive a reasoned decision from the body authorized to make it.
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INSTITUTIONAL CAPTURE
Separate institutions must remain separate in reality
Different names on paper are not enough.
Terms, elections, budgets, incompatible offices, decision records and member participation should make it difficult for one network to control institutions that are supposed to check one another.
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