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Fair, timely and transparent disposition of international trade cases, procurement cases and government-mandated inquiries within the Tribunal's jurisdiction.
The following section describes the Tribunal's program activities and identifies the expected result, performance indicators and targets for each of them. This section also explains how the Tribunal plans on meeting the expected results and presents the financial and non-financial resources that will be dedicated to each program activity.
This section will contain a discussion of plans surrounding the following program activities:
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Tribunal decisions are fair, impartial and based on quality information. |
Tribunal decisions are overturned by the following national and international appeal bodies:
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Not more than 2 percent of all decisions rendered over the most recent five-year period are overturned by the Federal Court of Appeal and/or international appeal bodies. |
Soundness of the Tribunal's decisions under judicial review that are overturned by the Federal Court of Appeal and/or international appeal bodies based on “due process” not being followed. | Less than 1 percent of all decisions on due process will be overturned. | |
Tribunal notices, decisions and guidelines for all areas of its mandate and practice notices are accessible to the public. | All notices, practice notices, decisions and guidelines for all areas of the Tribunal's mandate are accessible to the public. | |
Decisions are issued within statutory deadlines. The Tribunal's decisions regarding dumping and/or subsidizing, safeguard inquiries and procurement complaints are subject to statutory deadlines. | All decisions are issued within the legislated deadline. | |
Appeal decisions are issued within internal deadlines. There is no statutory deadline imposed for appeals of decisions of the CBSA and Minister of National Revenue. However, the Tribunal has adopted an informal, voluntary standard of issuing such decisions within 120 days of the hearing of an appeal. | 70 percent of internal deadlines are met. | |
Program Activity Summary and Planning Highlights In its quasi-judicial role, the Tribunal inquires into trade-related complaints (i.e. dumping, subsidizing and safeguards) and complaints regarding federal government procurement. The Tribunal hears appeals from decisions of the Minister of National Revenue under the Excise Tax Act and of the CBSA under the Customs Act and SIMA. Planning Highlights: In order to achieve the expected result for its quasi-judicial role, the Tribunal plans to undertake the following activities:
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Tribunal recommendations on economic, trade, tariff matters and the standing textile reference are fair, impartial and based on quality information. | Recommendations meet the terms of reference and provide requested information. An indicator of the soundness of the Tribunal's decisions is the number of requests for additional information from the Minister of Finance. | All recommendations meet the terms of reference. |
Reports, decisions and recommendations are published within government-mandated deadlines. The Tribunal's recommendations regarding the tariff reference and economic inquiries are subject to statutory deadlines. | All recommendations are published within statutory deadlines. | |
Program Activity Summary and Planning Highlights In its advisory role, the Tribunal undertakes general economic inquiries and tariff references for the Minister of Finance or the Governor in Council. |
Program Activity Summary and Planning Highlights Internal Services are groups of related activities and resources that are administered to support the needs of the program and other corporate obligations of an organization. Internal Services include only those activities and resources that apply across an organization and not to those provided specifically to a program. The Tribunal's planning highlights for Internal Services include the following.
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Through its program activities, the Tribunal provides the following benefits to Canadians: