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Directors of Crown Corporations: An Introductory Guide to Their Roles and Responsibilities
Table of Contents
Crown Corporations and Boards of Directors.
- What is a Crown corporation?
- How are Crown corporations created?
- The different types of Crown corporations.
- The role of boards of directors.
The Federal Government and Crown Corporations.
- The role of Parliament.
- The role of the Governor in Council.
- The roles of the Prime Minister's Office and the Privy Council Office.
- The role of the responsible minister.
- The role of the Treasury Board.
- The role of the Minister of Finance.
- The role of the Crown Corporations Directorate.
The Director of a Crown Corporation.
- Responsibilities and duties.
- The board of directors and its committees.
- Board meetings.
- Privileged communications.
- Constraints on directors.
- Directive power.
- Extent of a director's liability.
- For further information.
