Canada Awards for Excellence | |
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Awarded for | Recognizing Canadian businesses for excellence in applying the principles of Total Quality Management as embodied in Excellence Canada's Progressive Excellence Program |
Sponsored by | Excellence Canada |
Country | Canada |
First awarded | 1984 [Note 1] |
Website | www |
The Canada Awards for Excellence are the national quality awards of Canada. [2] [3] They are administered by Excellence Canada, a not-for-profit organization on behalf of the Governor General of Canada. [4] Industry Canada established the awards in 1984 [Note 1] as the Canadian Business Excellence Awards. The National Quality Institute (NQI) was spun off as a separate, self-sustaining entity to administer the awards in 1992 and became Excellence Canada in 2011. [5] While originally intended for profitmaking Canadian firms, the awards are now open to government agencies and not-for-profit organizations.
As of 2014, there are eleven awards categories: [6]
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The Governor General of Canada is the Patron of the Canada Awards for Excellence...