Manitoba Crown Services ()—through the Crown Services Secretariat—provides strategic, regulatory, and policy support to the

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, as well as assisting in the reporting and oversight of all Crown corporations governed by the ''Crown Corporation Governance and Accountability Act''. There are currently five Crown corporations governed by Act:

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, Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries, Manitoba Centennial Centre Corporation, and

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. These corporations must abide by the following principal reporting requirements: a roles and responsibility record, annual business plans, and quarterly and annual financial reports. Oversight over Manitoba's crown corporations was previously the responsibility of an 8-member panel called the Crown Corporations Council,Manitoba Crown Corporations Council home page
/ref> which was dissolved in 2016. The Secretariat consists of two units: * the Policy Unit — "prepares documents, manages legislative and regulatory needs, provides analysis of major capital proposals and liaises with Crowns to address concerns of Manitobans." * the Regulatory Unit — "ensures compliance with reporting requirements of the act, and provides analysis and advice with respect to business plans, capital plans and other major decisions that boards of the Crown corporations may make."

History

The ''Crown Corporations Public Review and Accountability Act'' was enacted in 1989 to ensure that public confidence in Manitoba's Crown corporations is maintained and to strengthen the accountability mechanisms for Manitoba's Crown corporations. This Act established the Crown Corporations Council as a corporation responsible to the

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, who was charged with the administration of the Act. In 2016, Manitoba's Progressive Conservative administration introduced legislation to repeal the ''Crown Corporations Public Review and Accountability Act'' and scrap the Crown Corporations Council. The ''Crown Corporations Governance and Accountability Act'' was subsequently passed in 2017, creating a new governance model for the

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, Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries, and

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References

External links

Manitoba Crown Corporations Council
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