Defending a Contested Ideal: Merit and the Public Service Commission, 1908-2008 (Governance)

by KenRasmussen (Author), Luc Juillet (Author)

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  2008

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  In 1908 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 recounts its unique contribution to the development of an independent public service.