Defending a Contested Ideal
Material type: TextSeries: Governance SeriesUniversity of Ottawa Press 2008Description: 1 online resource (264 pages)Content type:- text
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- Merit and the Public Service Commission, 1908:2008
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In 1908, after decades of struggling with a public administration undermined by systemic patronage, the Canadian parliament decided that public servants would be selected on the basis of merit, through a system administered by an independent agency: the Public Service Commission of Canada. This history, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Commission, recounts its unique contribution to the development of an independent public service, which has become a pillar of Canadian parliamentary democracy.
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