Research publications

Although some organ donation indicators have improved in recent years, the living donor rate declined from 2023 to 2024, and many Canadians continue to wait for an organ transplant. This HillStudy provides an overview of organ donation across Canada, discusses organ donor rates and compares them with those of other countries and summarizes organ transplant activity in Canada.

This HillStudy outlines the roles of internal and external audit, how they differ and how they complement one another, with a focus on the federal public sector. In particular, it examines how internal audit can create value and some of the common challenges the internal audit function faces.

This HillStudy examines the legal framework supporting employment equity, recent data and trends, and efforts to modernize the Employment Equity Act (the Act) to increase the diversity of the federal public service and to reduce systemic barriers to employment.

A regulation is a legally binding form of law made pursuant to legislative authority delegated by Parliament. It is usually made by an executive body, like the Governor in Council, a minister, department, board or commission, and can be referred to as an “order” or “rule” among other names. Responsibility for the parliamentary oversight of federal regulations is delegated primarily to a parliamentary committee, namely, the Standing Joint Committee for the Scrutiny of Regulations (REGS). However, Parliament is empowered to exercise oversight of regulations in many other ways. This HillStudy discusses Parliament’s powers to oversee federal regulations. Because powers of REGS are better known, this publication focuses primarily on Parliament’s other regulatory powers.