Van der Heijden, Jeroen2015-12-071754-7121http://hdl.handle.net/1885/25531In response to issues about municipal-led regulatory enforcement, governments in Canada have been reforming their regimes of building regulation and control since the 1980s. As a result, private-sector inspectors were introduced as an alternative to local government control on the adherence to building regulations. However, this privatization has resulted in variations among jurisdictions. The main difference is the degree of private-sector involvement. Based on a series of interviews with forty-seven insiders, this article addresses the implications of such differences in privatization on the practice and process of building code enforcement. It draws some general lessons for the redesign of control over building regulations but at the same time warns against copy-pasting best practices.http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/0008-4840/..."author can archive pre-print (ie pre-refereeing)" from SHERPA/RoMEO site (as at 6/01/17). This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: Van Der Heijden, J. (2010), One task, a few approaches, many impacts: Private-sector involvement in Canadian building code enforcement. Canadian Public Administration, 53: 351–374. doi:10.1111/j.1754-7121.2010.00138.x, which has been published in final form at https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1754-7121.2010.00138.x. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.201010.1111/j.1754-7121.2010.00138.x2015-12-07