Canada Awards for Excellence

{{Short description|National quality awards of Canada}}

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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

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| year = 1984{{refn|name=Category|group=Note|Quality was not awarded as a separate category until 1989{{Citation | last = Beecroft | first = G. Dennis | last2 = Duffy | first2 = Grace L. | year = 2003 | title = The Executive Guide to Improvement and Change | publisher = American Society for Quality | publication-place = Milwaukee, Wisconsin | page = 60 | isbn = 9780873895798 | oclc = 51553408}}}}

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The Canada Awards for Excellence are the national quality awards of Canada.{{Citation | last = Evans | first = James R. | last2 = Lindsay | first2 = William M. | year = 1999 | title = The Management and Control of Quality | edition = 4 | publisher = South-Western College Publishing | publication-place = Nashville, Tennessee | pages = [https://archive.org/details/managementcontro0004evan/page/144 144–145] | isbn = 9780538882422 | oclc = 38475486 | url = https://archive.org/details/managementcontro0004evan/page/144 }}{{Citation | last = Porter | first = Leslie J. | last2 = Tanner | first2 = S. J. | year = 1996 | title = Assessing Business Excellence: A Guide to Self-Assessment | publisher = Butterworth-Heinemann | publication-place = Boston, Massachusetts | pages = 70–71 | isbn = 9780750624794 | oclc = 34115854}} They are administered by Excellence Canada, a not-for-profit organization on behalf of the Governor General of Canada.{{cite web | url = http://www.excellence.ca/en/awards/ | title = Awards | website = excellence.ca | publisher = Excellence Canada | location = Toronto, Ontario, Canada | accessdate = 2014-06-01 | quote = The Governor General of Canada is the Patron of the Canada Awards for Excellence... | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140605052040/http://www.excellence.ca/en/awards/ | archive-date = 2014-06-05 | url-status = dead }} Industry Canada established the awards in 1984 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.{{cite web | url = http://www.excellence.ca/en/knowledge-centre/news/national-quality-institute-is | title = National Quality Institute is becoming Excellence Canada | website = excellence.ca | publisher = Excellence Canada | location = Toronto, Ontario, Canada | accessdate = 2014-06-01 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161104144203/https://www.excellence.ca/en/knowledge-centre/news/national-quality-institute-is | archive-date = 2016-11-04 | url-status = dead }} While originally intended for profitmaking Canadian firms, the awards are now open to government agencies and not-for-profit organizations.