PS needs better ‘front door’: Jim Mitchell: Federal bureaucracy plagued by patronage, says former top mandarin

OTTAWA--Bureaucratic patronage remains one of the most troubling and persistent features of the federal public service, says Jim Mitchell, a former senior mandarin who remains one of the most trusted voices on the machinery of government.

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