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	THE LONG FORM PSYCHOSIS AS RéVéLATEUR OF GOVERNANCE FAILURE: AN EDITORIAL
	Gilles Paquet www.optimumonline.ca rarely presents editorials to the subscribers. The summer 2010 psychodrama around the long form of the census has however revealed a sufficiently important governance failure to trigger one by the editor-in-chief.

	PERFORMANCE AUDITING: COZY, COMFORTABLE AND IN NEED OF CHALLENGE
	John Mayne Performance auditing is now routinely produced. But is it well adapted to public administration, and is it effective? It is suggested that it is not without problems and that more public discussion is warranted.

	INTEGRATED PLANNING
	Doug Dollinger The discussion of integrated planning has suffered from lack of clarity and direction. This paper describes practical methods for doing it and spells out the critical conditions for it to succeed.

	CANADIAN FISHERIES: CO-MANAGEMENT OR CO-OPTATION?
	Timothy Heinmiller and Aaron MacMullin Co-management is crucial in fisheries, but to be successful it must find way to balance the different interests of the stakeholders. The Cape Briton snow crab fishery is a good illustration of how not to do it. Ways of constraining the absolute power of federal politicians must be found.

	LETTER FROM THE EDITOR IN CHIEF
	Gilles Paquet

	COMMUNITY GOVERNANCE
	Gilles Paquet What are the prerequisites for and effective community governance? How can it be constructed? How can one avoid the dangerous pitfalls on the way to community governance?

	THE DETOX PROJECT
	Tim Ragan Business corporations are engines driven by profit-making. They also can be very toxic in their rapports with the environment, their employees and their consumers. The Detox Project suggests that a better pricing of all inputs might help detox business and generate the societal outcome we want.

	UNIVERSITIES : QUO VADIS ?
	Gérard Bélanger Universities have tended to evolve in a manner that does not serve undergraduate students well. This has led a group of Ontario experts to suggest that one should create public institutions dedicated to undergraduate studies only. The author questions the viability of such a strategy and proposes to use, as a lever, competition by private for-profit universities.

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