Collection search - Records of crown corporation and portfolio governance and oversight [textual record]

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Records of crown corporation and portfolio governance and oversight [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Accession

Date:

1980-2007.

Reference:

RG12, R184, 4-2008-10-031 OFRC, 2017-00553-3

BAN no.:

2017-00553-3

Type of material:

Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

5050550

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Date(s):

1980-2007.

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

24.3 m of textual records.

Language of material:

English

Finding aid:

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Textual records (Electronic) Finding aid 12-512 is an unverified list that includes box number, file number, volume number, file title, and dates. The severed finding aid is available as a PDF attached to this record. 12-512 (66:Severed)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf002/12-512_5050550 _severed.pdf

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General note:

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Accession consists of records created and/or maintained by units responsible for supporting the Ministers in their portfolio responsibilities towards a number of Crown corporations. The majority of these records appear to have been created by the Department of Public Works and Government Services (PWGSC), and more specifically, by departmental staff providing secretarial support to the Minister's office. Note that related records are likely to be found in the Public Works fonds (RG11) and elsewhere in the Department of Transport fonds.

These records cover a variety of file blocks and topics, including: Portfolio Management - General (1550); Crown Corporation - Canada Post Corporation (CPC) (1560); Crown Corporations - Canada Lands Company Limited - Mandate Review (1571); Crown Corporations - Canada Lands Company Limited - Parc Downsview Park (1582); Crown Corporations - Queens Quay West Land Corporation - General (1600); Crown Corporations - Queens Quay West Land Corporation - General (1610); Crown Corporations - Old Port of Montreal Corporation Inc. - General (1590); Crown Corporations - Canada Lands Company Limited (1570). The records document meetings, annual reporting and business planning, agreements, legal reviews, events, briefings, background about issues around the dissolution of the Queens Quay West Land Corporation, correspondence, infrastructure and land issues, financial issues, audit, consultations on the 1996 Canada Post Mandate Review, disposal of property, and other portfolio issues related to governance, Indigenous peoples, the Vancouver 2010 Olympic bid, and remediation of contaminated sites.

Custodial history:

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The custodial history of this collection of records is not entirely clear. It appears as though the collection was almost entirely created by the Department of Public Works and Government Services, based on the file classification numbers of the records. This collection likely would have then been added to and maintained there until the early 2000s, when responsibility for many of these crown corporations was transferred from the Minister of Public Works and Government Services to other ministers. In fact, tracing the responsibility for some of these institutions is quite difficult. Canada Post, for example, already fell under the Minister of PWGSC by 1996, then in 2002 was transferred under the "Minister responsible for Canada Post Corporation," a title that was shuffled into at least two separate portfolios between 2002 and 2004 (Minister of State, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Infrastructure and Crown Corporations and Minister responsible for Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation and Minister responsible for Canada Post Corporation, 2002-2003, and Minister of National Revenue and Minister of State (Sport) and Minister responsible for Canada Post Corporation, 2003-2004). And later in 2006, after the change in government, responsibility was transferred again, this time to the "Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities." For further context, note as well that responsibility for Canada Post was again transferred under the responsibility of the Minister of Public Services and Procurement (formerly PWGSC) in 2015. This complexity is only added to when we also take into consideration the "Public Service Rearrangement and Transfer of Duties Act," which documents at least two separate transfers of duties related to "the Control and Supervision of ... Canada Post Corporation" between the Department of Transport and the Canada Revenue Agency between 2004 and 2006. The transfer of duties may however only have reflected which secretarial staff in which departments were responsible for helping the different Ministers in the oversight of their portfolio institutions. This kind of complexity appears to be similar for all of the institutions addressed in this collection of records.

Despite the complexity discussed above, the last custodian of these records was Transport Canada (Department of Transport) and it was TC that eventually transferred the records to LAC.

Source:

Government

Related control no.:

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R184-571-3-E
R184-571-3-F
RG12

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RG12

Other accession no.:

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4-2008-10-031 OFRC

Record disposition authority no.:

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94/017
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