Deck 7: Crown Agencies

Question 1

What is the current state of parent Crown corporations in Canada?

A)There has been a significant increase in parent Crown corporations over the last 30 years.
B)The number of parent Crown corporations has relatively remained the same over the last 30 years.
C)There has been a significant decrease in parent Crown corporations over the last 30 years.
D)There has been insufficient data to make any claims about Crown corporations in Canada.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

How is accountability maintained in a Crown corporation?

A)There is no accountability because Crown corporations are supposed to be free of government influence.
B)Each Crown corporation has a board of directors who are accountable to the minister, who in turn is accountable and answerable to Parliament.
C)The chief executive officer of the Crown corporation is accountable to parliament directly.
D)The chief executive officer is accountable to the minister in the same way that a deputy minister is accountable to a minister.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Parliament controls Crown agencies by approving appropriations of funding.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Which of the following Acts is involved in the establishment of Crown corporations?

A)Canada Business Corporations Act
B)Financial Administration Act
C)Elections Act
D)Canada Petroleum Resources Act

Question 5

What is the name given to a corporation whose mandate relates to industrial, commercial, or financial activities, but that also belongs to the state?

A)government department
B)Crown corporation
C)regulatory agency
D)administrative tribunal

Question 6

What type of entity is the Canadian Human Rights Commission?

A)regulatory agency
B)administrative tribunal
C)Crown corporation
D)mixed enterprise

Question 7

Which of the following has NOT been privatized and still remains a Crown corporation (as of 2017)?

A)Canada Post
B)Petro Canada
C)Air Canada
D)Canadian National Railway

Question 8

What is a parent corporation?

A)They are corporate entities whereby 100 percent of their shares are owned by one or more Crown corporations.
B)They are a type of Crown corporation whereby the shares are held jointly by the government of Canada and one or more private interests.
C)They are a type of Crown corporation whose shares are directly and wholly owned by the government of Canada.
D)They are a type of Crown corporation whose shares are not directly or wholly owned by the government of Canada.

Question 9

Which of the following is an example of a type of Crown corporation established through international agreements, whereby Canada either owns shares or has the ability to appoint or elect members to its governing body?

A)Calgary Airport Authority
B)International Monetary Fund
C)Canadian Security Intelligence Agency
D)Immigration and Refugee Board

Question 10

What is the term for a type of Crown corporation in which the shares are held jointly by the government of Canada and another level of government?

A)partly owned subsidiary
B)parent corporation
C)mixed enterprise
D)joint enterprise

Question 11

Which of the following is an example of a shared-governance corporation?

A)North Portage Development Corporation
B)Bank of Canada
C)Petro Canada
D)Wildlife Habitat Canada

Question 12

Crown corporations only exist at the federal level.

Question 13

Which of the following is a regulatory agency?

A)Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC)
B)Canada Post
C)National Energy Board
D)Canada Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC)

Question 14

Which of the following parent Crown corporations is under the Department of Finance's portfolio?

A)Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
B)Bank of Canada
C)Public Sector Pension Investment Board
D)Canadian Commercial Corporation

Question 15

As of 2015, there were more wholly owned subsidiaries than parent Crown corporations.

Question 16

What are the two most common types of regulations implemented by regulatory agencies?

A)political and social regulations
B)political and economic regulations
C)environmental and social regulations
D)economic and social regulations

Question 17

Crown corporations are similar in structure to a private corporation.

Question 18

What is the captive agency theory?

A)a theory which holds that, over time, the regulatory agency becomes controlled by the interests it was established to regulate
B)a regulatory agency that is so restrictive in its use of rules and regulations that the industry in question is captured by the government
C)a Crown corporation that becomes so restrictive with its operations that it is captured by the government
D)a form of risk assessment theory that provides provincial permits to agencies

Question 19

There are now no mixed enterprises at the federal level.

Question 20

Who provides the day-to-day management and oversight of a Crown agency?

A)president and chief executive officer
B)senior vice presidents
C)chief operating officer
D)chair of the board of directors

Question 21

Ministers and Cabinet do not have any say in appointing directors and chairs of corporation boards and agencies.

Question 22

Nation building and community development are two important reasons for the creation of public enterprises in Canada.

Question 23

Alberta has privatized the retailing of liquor.

Question 24

There is a separate legislation for each new Crown corporation or agency.

Question 25

Courts have no jurisdiction or authority to control the actions of independent regulatory agencies.