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Crown corporations in BC are public-sector organizations established and funded by the Government of British Columbia to provide specialized goods and services to citizens. [1] They operate at varying levels of government control, depending on how they are defined, funded, and the kinds of services they provide.
Former Crown corporations of British Columbia (1 C, 5 P) Pages in category "Crown corporations of British Columbia" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total.
Crown corporations (French: Société de la Couronne) [1] are government organizations in Canada with a mixture of commercial and public-policy objectives. [2] [3] They are directly and wholly owned by the Crown (i.e. the government of Canada or a province). [2] Crown corporations represent a specific form of state-owned enterprise.
Pages in category "Former Crown corporations of British Columbia" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
British Columbia Ferry Services Inc., operating as BC Ferries (BCF), is a former provincial Crown corporation, now operating as an independently managed, publicly owned Canadian company. BC Ferries provides all major passenger and vehicle ferry services for coastal and island communities in the Canadian province of British Columbia .
The British Columbia Energy Regulator (BCER), formerly the BC Oil and Gas Commission, is the Crown Corporation responsible for energy regulation in British Columbia, Canada. [1] Established in October 1998, it has offices in seven cities: Fort St. John, Fort Nelson, Kelowna, Victoria, Terrace, Dawson Creek, and Prince George.
The British Columbia Assessment Authority is a publicly owned Crown Corporation in the Province of British Columbia, Canada.BC Assessment was created in 1974, as a result of a provincial government all-party committee unanimous recommendation that an independent assessment agency be created.
Ministers of the Crown often control the shares in such public corporations, while parliament both sets out the laws that create and bind Crown corporations and sets their annual budgets. Foreign SOEs are welcome to invest in Canada: in fall 2013, British Columbia [ 5 ] [ 6 ] and Alberta [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] signed agreements overseas to promote ...