Shot across the bow by Canada’s top bureaucrat will likely not be the last

Michael Wernick has also decided to engage in a high-risk, high return game of 'gotcha' with the country’s most powerful number-cruncher.
To witness last week’s battle between chief Ottawa bureaucrat, Privy Council Clerk Michael Wernick and Auditor-General Michael Ferguson was a head-turner.
OTTAWA—Two bureaucrats rarely make it to the front page of The Globe and Mail. The normal modus operandi is to stay behind the scenes and work things out collegially. It is usually the politicians’ job to create the news, and when a bureaucrat does make the paper, the result is genera...

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