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The Economic Council of Canada was an independent economic advisory body established
as a Union soldier jacket corporation by the governing of Canada in 1963 .Its purpose was to
report on a wide-eyed mountain chain of pressing subject relating to Canada 's economical
growth , focusing on five main economic object glass : fully employment , sustained
economic growth , price constancy , equitable distribution of rising incomes , and a viable
proportion of payments .The council was dissolved alongside six former government
organization in 1993 .== Governance , stave and budget == The council was overseen by a
chair ( actually , `` Chairman '' ) , two deputy chairs and directors ( with one lieutenant
placement being managing director only until 1987 ) , and not more than 25 part-time
board members .The chairs and deputy sheriff were appointed by the prime pastor and the
circuit card members by the regulator in council .The chair was the tribal chief executive
ship's officer and had responsibleness for supervision over and direction of the workplace
of the faculty .All signed the reappraisal and inquiry reports , with protest being
uncommon .The council reported to a minister of Parliament `` as may be designated by the
regulator in Council to act as the Minister responsible for purpose of the Act . ''Initially , this
rector was Maurice Lamontagne , secretary of state , who had strongly supported the ecesis
of the council ; by the mid-1960s it was the prime minister of religion of Canada whom the
council reported to .All the council 's financial support came from the Federal soldier
government , via the finance and industry diplomatic minister .There were six chairs ( plus
one meantime ) , as follows : Gospel According to John J. Deutsch ( 1963 – 1967 ) Arthur J.R.
metalworker ( 1968 – 1971 ) André Raynauld ( 1972 – 1976 ) George IV Post , interim
( 1978 ) Sylvia Ostry ( 1978 – 1979 ) Jacques Louis David W. woodlouse ( 1980 – 1985 )
Book of Judith J. C. Maxwell ( 1985 – 1992 ) The Chairs were appointed by the undercoat
minister for seven years , but most served for four twelvemonth , and four of them served as
a deputy professorship for respective years before being appointed as Chairs .Four of them
were experienced public servants : Deutsch , Post , Ostry , and Slater .Deutsch stepped down
when he was appointed dealer of Queen 's University .Smith went on to guide the group
discussion Board of Canada and several corporate plug-in .Raynauld was a University of
Montreal professor , who left the council to attend a term in the Quebec National Assembly ,
and then went back to the university .Before the council , Ostry had been head of Statistics
Canada and after leaving she took up a number of senior positions at the Organization for
Economic Cooperation and Development , the then department of International Trade , and
some universities .slater had been a senior department of Finance functionary before being
appointed to the council .After the Council closed in 1992 , Maxwell founded another think
tankful , the Canadian Policy Research Networks Council Board phallus were appointed to
comprise their province and their sphere of society – business , labour , USDA and
consumers .The first extremity were appointed in December , 1963 and the first coming
together of the council , along with the Chairs and Vice-chairs , was conducted in Jan
1964 .They were expected to participate in a consensus summons to gear up priorities for
the council 's inquiry and analysis and were collectively creditworthy for the conclusions
and recommendations contained in its major reports and program line .fellow member
were also capable to save a dissent to be included in the net account .For the fiscal yr 1965–
66 , the number of council staff was reported as being `` about 100 including some 40
professionals drawn from Federal soldier and provincial department and office , business
organization firms , push organizations , universities and intimate institutions '' For that
year , expenditure were about $ 1,254,000 ( all electric current dollar bill ) , compared to
about $ 947,000 in 1964–65 , its first wide year of surgical process .By 1973 , stave
numbered 128 , comprising 72 researchers and former professional person staff and 56
support staff , with another 71 persons being engaged in 62 external contract
bridge .Expenditures were just over $ 3 million in 1972–73 .In 1983 , there were 60
economists .== Roles and origins == The council served three briny persona , as follows :
research/analytical : its staff of economist and specialists assessed medium/long-term
economic prospects compared to potential , and gathered data for conducting in-depth
economic analytic thinking and written report of various economic issues and trends ;
advisory : it encouraged maximum reference among , and sought the advice of , labour and
management , authority of Union and provincial governments , and the Canadian public and
academia , often by convening major conferences and colloquia ; and
advisory/planning/educational : Council leaders and stave produced paper and papers and
then held press acquittance , gave voice communication , and sponsored and attended
group discussion about its enquiry and insurance policy recommendation , in order to
increase the storey of understanding and debate on economical offspring and innovative
possible solutions among the public ( federal official and provincial ) and secret policy-
makers , as well as the mechanical press and the populace at boastfully .These functions
corresponded to research indigence perceived in the too soon post-World warfare II stop
that the council was designed and established to call .The commencement interested
economic enquiry and policy-making capacity .In 1963 , just prior to its brass , a Royal
perpetration had found that little economical inquiry was being carried out by the Union
government and there were few non-governmental , non-academic research bodies doing
the same .The delegacy also identified a deficiency of economical data , fallible
understanding of the precept of economical depth psychology , and meagre economic
reporting in the press , which gaps the council would exist able to fill .Indeed , the council 's
yearbook revue were immediately seen as contributing to public information , as Canada
had not , until the council 's inception , a body of informed economic insurance policy critics
that would attract attending from the government .Also , there was patent indigence to
address a wider range of economic issues than just poor productivity increase , which was
the focus of the council 's herald governance , the national productivity Council , which was
disbanded with the creation of the council .Moreover , there had been a perception of
insufficient research focus on longer-term economic and social problem leading to
advertizing hoc policy and course of study treatments .Thus , the Economic Council was
mandated to provide medium/long-term outlooks on a range of economical and social
issues .This more or less institutionalized the work of periodic royal Commissions , such as
the 1957 royal delegacy of Economic prospect ( Walter Gordon ) , which typically had a
longer-term focus in full term of research and policy-making .Short-term policy-making was
left to the Department of Finance and other Union department , as it had been .However ,
when the Council realized the difficulty in separating short- from long-term insurance
objectives and adopted shorter term sensible horizon using three-year public presentation
indicant in 1972 , tension between it and Finance arose and remained .The second major
need the council addressed was that , in the 1950s and early 1960s , there was growing
interest in consultation and consensus-building .The Progressive Conservative party ( in
major power from 1957 to 1963 ) and the liberalist party ( before it was elected in 1963 )
had developed musical theme for broader business and British Labour Party participation
in economic decision-making .Moreover , many began to recognize that economical
ontogeny was falling behind that of the European countries which relied more
systematically on tripartism .Thus , reference with clientele and confinement was to make
up an important aspect of the council 's piece of work .It was this lack of ideological
positions and its consultative nature , along with its independence , that stood the council
apart from other economic inquiry system of the meter and Lent greater weightiness to its
research and policy finale and prescriptions .However , the consultative modeling adopted
for the council in developing policy prescription medicine – involving byplay and labour
( and academe ) – could not follow said to comprise tripartism as understood in Europe and
originally envisioned for the council , in that government did not participate in the
unconscious process .