Staffing at the canada revenue agency

• Author: Christopher Rootham
• Pages: 419-432

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STAFFING AT THE

CANADA REVENUE AGENCY

A. INTRODUCTION

As stated in the previou s chapter, appointments to and from withi n the federal

public serv ice must be made by the Public S ervice C ommission u nless anot her

Act of Parliament grants s ome other entity the authority to make appointments.

erefore, when another Act of Parlia ment grants the authorit y to a person to

make appointments to a particu lar agency or entity, then those appointments

are no longer made by the Public Ser vice Commission. For ex ample, the Park s

Canada Agency Act gives the chief executive ocer of Parks Canada t he author-

ity to make appointments and to “establish standards, procedures and processes

governing s tang ”; the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency Act gives the

commissioner or Customs and Revenue the aut hority to appoint any employees

necessary for what is now ca lled the Canada Revenue Agency ; and the Canad-

ian Food Inspection Agency Act gives the president of that agency the authority

Parks Canada Agenc y Act, S.C. , c. , s. ().

Canada Custom s and Revenue Agency Act, S.C . , c. , s.  [CCRA Act]. e Act

refers to the “Canad a Customs and Revenue Agency.” However, on  December  ,

the parts of t he Canada Customs and Reve nue Agency dedicated to the ad ministration

of customs statute s were transferred to the M inister of Public Secu rity and Emergency

Planning und er the Order Transferring Cer tain Portions of the Canad a Customs and

Revenue Agency to the C anada Border Serv ices Agency, S.I./-, pursuant to t he

Public Servi ce Rearrangement and Transfer of Duties Ac t, R.S.C. , c. P-. e

decision to separat e customs and trade ser vices from the agency a nd transfer these

functions to t he new Canada Border Ser vices Agency was the re sult of the government’s

commitment to enha nced security t hrough strong border protection . As a consequence,

the agency is now k nown as the Canada Revenue A gency.

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