Civil Circles
Testifying before committees feels like being ‘part of democracy in action,’ say former ADMs
'You're not there to defend the policy of Canada, you're there to explain it,' says Brian Emmett, former Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development and ADM at Natural Resources.
When they're sitting in front of a Parliamentary committee, a senior bureaucrat's first responsibility is to the minister they are representing, say senior officials who have experience appearing before Parliamentarians.
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