Senator wants Paul Martin to decentralize bureaucracy: Percy Downe says Ottawa must follow U.K.’s lead, move bureaucrats out of nation’s capital

Agroup of Senators, led by Liberal Sen. Percy Downe, is pushing Prime Minister Paul Martin to relocate thousands of public servants from their jobs in the National Capital Area to the outlying regions of the country. Sen. Downe says bureaucratic power has been "overly centralized in the hands of ...

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