Time for a new and independent commissioner of public appointments

There should be an independent commissioner of public appointments to greatly reduce the role of patronage in appointments to the vast array of public bodies—agencies, boards, commissions and Crown corporations—which, with the public service,

The machinery of government requires three primary inputs: taxpayers' money (to fuel the machine), laws (the legal authority for its operations), and people to run the executive, legislative and judicial branches. For financial oversight, we have the auditor general and the Public Accounts Commit...

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