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For good reason, China's election interference has sparked outrage in Canada. But China's ability to sway a broad spectrum of Canadian voters is far weaker than the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producer's (CAPP) foreign-funded political interference. Most oil and gas companies in Canada are foreign-owned and funded, and they use a loophole to fund election activities. This loophole must be closed.

This research project seeks to explore aspects of the post-reporting phase of the public inquiry process. Central to the public inquiry process is the concept of legitimacy and the idea that a public inquiry provides and opportunity to re-legitimate the credibility of failed public institutions. The current literature asserts that public inquiries re-legitimise through the production of authoritative narratives. As such, most of this scholarship has focused on the production of inquiry reports and, more recently, the reports themselves. However, in an era of accountability, and in the aftermath of such a poignant attack upon society, the production of a report may represent an apogee, but by no means an end, of the re-legitimation process. Appropriately, this thesis examines the post-reporting phase of the 9/11 Commission's public inquiry process. The 9/11 Commission provides a useful research vehicle due to the bounded, and relatively linear, implementation process of the Commission's recommendations. In little more than four months a majority of the Commission's recommendations were passed into law. Within this implementation phase the dominant discursive process took place in the United States Congress. It is the legislative reform debates in the House of Representatives and the Senate that is the focus of this research project. The central research question is: what rhetorical legitimation strategies were employed in the legislative reform debates of the post-reporting phase of the 9/11 Commission's public inquiry process? This study uses a grounded theory approach to the analysis of the legislative transcripts of the Congressional reform debates. This analysis revealed that proponents employed rhetorical strategies to legitimise a legislative 'Call to Action' narrative. Also, they employed rhetorical legitimation strategies that emphasised themes of bipartisanship, hard work and expertise in order to strengthen the standing of the legislation. Opponents of the legislation focused rhetorical de-legitimation strategies on the theme of 'flawed process'. Finally, nearly all legislators, regardless of their view of the legislation, sought to appropriate the authoritative legitimacy of the Commission, by employing rhetorical strategies that presented their interests and motives as in line with the actions and wishes of the Commission.

AbstractPublic inquiries remain the pre‐eminent mechanism for lesson‐learning after high‐profile failures. However, a regular complaint is that their recommendations get 'shelved'. In political science, the most common explanation for this lack of implementation tells us that elites mobilize bias in order to undermine inquiry lesson‐learning. This article tests this thesis via an international comparison of inquiries in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the UK. A series of alternative explanations for shelving emerge, which tell us that inquiry recommendations do not get implemented when: they do not respect the realities of policy transfer; they are triaged into policy refinement mechanisms; and they arrive at the 'street level' without consideration of local delivery capacities. These explanations tell us that the mobilization of bias thesis needs to be reworked in relation to public inquiries so that it better recognizes the complex reality of public policy in the modern state.

Address before the Royal institute of public administration, London, Nov. 29, 1954.

International audience ; Four public inquiries on deep geothermal projects in the Eurometropolis of Strasbourg were held in the spring of 2015 . These will be the main grounds of our investigations. What happened during these investigations and around them? How can this particular field reveal the different public perceptions on deep geothermal energy? Which spheres of representation were mobilized by the target audiences in order to understand deep geothermal energy and its issues? How are these audiences and stakeholders (associations, politics, institutions, researchers) taking up the subject? Our research is exploratory and should open up on the development of a more ambitious project on perceptions and appropriation of geothermal energy by the target audiences.

International audience ; Four public inquiries on deep geothermal projects in the Eurometropolis of Strasbourg were held in the spring of 2015 . These will be the main grounds of our investigations. What happened during these investigations and around them? How can this particular field reveal the different public perceptions on deep geothermal energy? Which spheres of representation were mobilized by the target audiences in order to understand deep geothermal energy and its issues? How are these audiences and stakeholders (associations, politics, institutions, researchers) taking up the subject? Our research is exploratory and should open up on the development of a more ambitious project on perceptions and appropriation of geothermal energy by the target audiences.