1. PPAS Ethics and the Public Service: Integrity and Democracy Conflicts of interest (case studies)
Ian Greene
November 7, 2013

2. Preliminary
Review of visit to Office of the Integrity Commissioner, Oct 24
Comments about the Senate scandal and Rob Ford scandal (without interfering with group presentations)
Next week: Friday November 22, 11:30 – 2:30 not Thursday Nov 21
• Annual Report of the Public Service Integrity Commissioner (Canada):
• Dimock et al., Ch. 8 (distributed in class today)
• “Federal public sector integrity commissioner finally finds wrongdoing” Toronto Star, March 9, 2013
• “Former integrity commissioner swept aside disclosures of wrongdoing,” The Globe and Mail, February 24, 2011.

3. Greene & Shugarman, Ch. 7
“Dirty hands”: lying, breaking promises, concealing the facts, carried out in the name of the public good.
Machiavelli
Dirty hands in war situations
Dirty campaigning
1974 election: wage and price controls
1984: Mulroney & free trade
1993 election: Liberals promised to replace GST
Deception & neg advertising ● RCMP Dirty Tricks 1970s
Dirty tricks and Watergate ● Iran-Contra
Recent examples: Robo calls, Wright’s $90K cheque
Compromise

4. Ian Greene, “Public service ethics and office politics.”
Interpersonal friction in the workplace that is not dealt with through mutual respect
Internal dimension: ethics of interpersonal relations
Back-stabbing
Dishonesty
Policy sabatoge
Relevant principles: rule of law, social equality
Poor communications skills
Good communicators: active listening, focus on one issue at a time, agreed time for discussion, context of roles.

5. Kernaghan and Langford, Ch 7
Duty to be accountable: obligation to answer for the fulfilment of assigned and accepted duties within framework of authority & resources provided.
Why important
Accountability to whom? For what?
By What means?
Personal responsibility
Case examples