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Speaking Truth to Canadians about Their Public Service

Speaking Truth to Canadians about Their Public Service

Savoie, Donald

Hardcover

General Political Science

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ISBN10: 0228021383
ISBN13: 9780228021384
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: Sep 10 2024
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.45
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.70
Language: English

The federal public service plays a vital role in Canada's development by helping to shape public policies and deliver programs and services to Canadians. Speaking Truth to Canadians about Their Public Service provides a comprehensive review of the challenges confronting the public service, how the relationship between politicians and career officials has evolved in recent years, and what motivates public servants.

Donald Savoie calls on Canadians and their politicians to consider what they want from their federal public service. Answering this question requires a fresh look at the government's traditional accountability requirements, how policies are shaped, and how government programs and services are delivered. It also requires a review of ambitious modernization and reform measures launched over the past forty years to make the public service more accommodating to political direction and to improve program delivery. Dividing federal public servants into two groups - poets (those who write policy) and plumbers (those who deliver programs and services) - the book establishes who has the upper hand. This division sheds new light on the theories that seek to explain the attitudes and behaviours of career government officials.

Amid increasingly strong signs that the public service is in need of a reset, Speaking Truth to Canadians about Their Public Service concludes with practical recommendations to assist Canadians and their politicians in defining what they want their public service to be.

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