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Harper government may be tinkering at margins but still no fundamental Conservative reworking of public service

Thinking Government author David Johnson says the institutionalized Cabinet system is a double-edged sword. 'Prime ministers from Trudeau to Harper have taken an issue that they're close to and simply circumvented the complexity of Cabinet rules and proce

Two elections, three political leaders, billions of dollars of spending and cuts and about a half-dozen mini-scandals have come and gone since David Johnson, a Cape Breton University political science professor last updated his book Thinking Government: Public Administration and Politics in Ca...

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