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Former top bureaucrat Jocelyne Bourgon calls for bold public service reform to match Carney’s economic plan

Could ‘mission government’ solve Ottawa’s delivery problems?

Public servants running in record numbers flip partisan assumptions

Canada’s social safety net is stuck in the 1960s

The Macdonald Commission at 40: Lessons for today’s Trump tumult

Does size really matter? Rethinking public service reform

Can Canada afford to cut the public service while Trump moves the goalposts?

La fonction publique est-elle prête pour le grand virage imposé par Trump?

Former top bureaucrat calls for major overhaul of the federal government

Chrystia Freeland’s resignation points to final breakdown of cabinet government

Deconstructing Canada’s ballooning $67-billion federal bureaucracy

Preparing for a Conservative government in the public service

A $9.3-billion pension surplus could be the cushion Ottawa will need

A surplus in the federal public-service pension plan presents the government with many options

Public service job cuts loom as Ottawa misses spending and deficit targets

Bulking up the Privy Council Office isn’t the solution to what ails the public service

Federal public servants are to report back to the office again. Their bosses say they mean it this time

Acting pay is a complication that runs deep in the public service

A relatively simple measure of productivity

Ottawa eyeing ways to simplify public sector pay rules, fix Phoenix problems

What to do with the public-service pension surplus that’s piling up?

A lack of scientific diplomacy leaves Canada at a disadvantage on the world stage

A systems approach would help prevent policy missteps

Can angst about productivity lead to serious public-service reforms?

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