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Article: WEB EXTRA: Public accounts committee to meet more often
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- Winnipeg Free Press
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- November 23, 2006
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By Mia Rabson
Manitobans will soon have a legislated schedule for the sittings of the committee charged with holding government accountable for its spending.
Premier Gary Doer also promised to create a provincial privacy commissioner when he makes changes to freedom of information legislation. Manitoba is one of the last provinces to enact a privacy office.
The public accounts committee -- which in 2004 was called the weakest of its kind in Canada by the former auditor general -- will meet a minimum of six times a year on a schedule that is mandated by legislation, Doer said Wednesday.
"We try to set a date, someone can't make it, they try to set a date and we can't make it -- we're just ...