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The Office of Consumer Affairs (OCA; French: Bureau de la consommation) is a Government of Canada agency under Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, which is responsible for consumer protection and promotion. The OCA is mandated "to these responsibilities by building trust in the marketplace so that consumers can both protect ...
Service Canada is the program operated by Employment and Social Development Canada to serve as a single-point of access for the Government of Canada's largest and most heavily used programs, such as the social insurance number, the Employment Insurance program, the Old Age Security program and the Canada Pension Plan. [1]
In 2007, the Government of Canada provided FCAC with an additional $3 million for the creation of the Financial Literacy Initiative. In 2009, new federal legislation gave FCAC oversight over payment card network operators. On July 11, 2010, amendments to the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada Act further expanded FCAC’s role in four areas:
The Government of Canada (French: Gouvernement du Canada) is the body responsible for the federal administration of Canada.The term Government of Canada refers specifically to the executive, which includes ministers of the Crown (together in the Cabinet) and the federal civil service (whom the Cabinet direct); it is alternatively known as His Majesty's Government (French: Gouvernement de Sa ...
Public services in Canada are delivered by various levels of government, determined through responsibility enacted in the Constitution. Financing for those services is provided through tax receipts, sales revenues, user fees, and other government revenue sources.
In 2012, the government of Canada launched a plan to move all federal government sites to a single domain, "canada.ca". [1] However, much of the plan was abandoned in 2017, with only a handful of departments and agencies such as the Canada Revenue Agency relocating; most government sites will remain under their domains for the foreseeable ...
A streetcar used by Royal Mail Canada in Ottawa, c. 1890s It was in 1867 that the newly formed Dominion of Canada created the Post Office Department as a federal government department (The Act for the Regulation of the Postal Service) headed by a Cabinet minister, the Postmaster General of Canada.
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA; French: Agence du revenu du Canada; ARC) is the revenue service of the Canadian federal government, and most provincial and territorial governments. The CRA collects taxes , administers tax law and policy , and delivers benefit programs and tax credits. [ 4 ]