Pre-Budget Consultations in British Columbia.
By Canadian Parliamentary Review
- Release Date: 2005-09-22
- Genre: Law
Description
British Columbia's Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services has recently adopted two innovative consultation methods to carry out its statutory mandate to seek public input on the government's fiscal priorities. After tracing the origins and evolution of the province s parliamentary pre-budget consultation process, this article describes and assesses the site-visit experiment, which enhanced urban legislators' knowledge of the challenges and opportunities facing rural, resource-based communities. It then demonstrates that the Committee's first experience with e-consultation dramatically affected the level and nature of public participation in the parliamentary pre-budget consultation conducted in the fall of 2004. **********
