Responsibility note ·

May 21 responsibility note: accountability should be measurable

Responsibility is a word that carries no weight unless it is measurable. The coalition's May 21 note describes the five public measures that would let Alberta hold every party in the file to account.

About this note A short update from the coalition for current publication. Informational. Not legal advice. Primary sources are linked inline.

The responsibility frame, restated

A responsible regulatory framework gives the public the data it needs to read whether each layer is doing its work. The coalition has written before that this is the responsibility test. The May debate has now produced a useful list of candidate measures from every direction. The coalition's contribution is to consolidate that list.

Five measurable accountability indicators

  1. Inspection coverage and frequency. The rule-application layer.
  2. Online and parcel-post enforcement actions. The unlawful-channel layer.
  3. Youth past-30-day prevalence, by age band. The prevention layer.
  4. Adult-switching survey data. The harm-reduction layer.
  5. Repeat-offender share of offences. The fairness layer.

How this fits the May conversation

Every coalition writing into the May debate has named some version of these five measures. The coalition's read is that none of them is controversial in isolation. The constructive next step is to ask Alberta to publish all five together, on a single page, annually. The coalition's responsibility standard already names public accountability as core practice.

What this is not

This is not a slogan piece. It is a list. Five numbers on one page would make the file legible. That is enough work for one note.

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