Merit and the Public Service Commission, 1908–2008
by
Luc Juillet, Ken Rasmussen
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2008
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,...