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Michael Wernick on the ‘wicked problems’ and hard conversations en route to public service reform

You can't fix a problem if you aren't willing to talk about it. That's why the former clerk of the Privy Council is speaking and writing about some of the taboo conversations that should be had about improving the federal public service.

Michael Wernick served as the clerk of the Privy Council, the top executive in Canada's public service, before his retirement in 2019. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY PETER MAZEREEUW

November 28, 2022

Government in 2022 "works differently, and far better," than it did 10 or 20 years ago, according to Michael Wernick, who retired from the top job in the federal public service in 2019.

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