Discussion Papers
- Submission by the Environmental Commissioners of Canada and Quebec to the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20)—Lessons in Good Governance: Performance auditing and reporting from the Environmental and Sustainable Development agenda in Canada (PDF 90 KB)—June 2012
- Managing Sustainable Development: A Discussion Paper by the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development (PDF 2.3 MB)—March 2010
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- Reporting on Outcomes: Setting Performance Expectations and Telling Performance Stories (PDF 132 KB)—May 2003
- Reflections on a Decade of Serving Parliament (PDF 571 KB)—February 2001
- Addressing Attribution Through Contribution Analysis: Using Performance Measures Sensibly (PDF 54 KB)—June 1999
- Innovation and Risk-Taking in the Federal Government, 1998
- The Role and Perspective of the Office of the Auditor General of Canada
- An Industry Canada Perspective (published with permission from Industry Canada)
- Innovation In The Federal Government: The Risk Not Taken (published with permission from the Public Policy Forum)
- Innovation In The Federal Government: The Risk Not Taken—Summary of Discussions (published with permission from the Public Policy Forum)
- Assessing Alternative Service Delivery Arrangements
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