POLS 2250 Chapter 7: Week 5: Crown Agencies

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2250
• Professor: Nanita Mohan

Document Summary

Crown agencies a term that applied to two types of public sector organizations. Along with government departments, they represent a traditional organizational form. Crown corporations a corporation in the ordinary sense of the term, whose mandate relates to industrial, commercial, or financial activities but also belongs to the state. Statutory and other agencies a type of crown agency, also known as agencies, boards, and commissions, they perform a wide range of functions in government. Federal agencies have a wide range of functions, they can be administrative, quasi judicial, advisory or regulatory in nature. Both crown corporations and various independent agencies are a part of the federal government have served important purposed in canada. Crown corporations are established either through their own legislation or though incorporation under the. Canada business corporation act in the same way as any private sector corporation. , canada post and the royal canadian mint.