When the pendulum swings: how does the public service respond to political polarization?
The polarization between political parties and their agendas creates a unique challenge for the nonpartisan public service. When everything is black and white, binary, and dichotomous, neutrality becomes difficult to define.
Canada’s public service is fundamentally nonpartisan. This allows officials to serve the government of the day regardless of its political stripe. The fact that public servants are appointed on merit rather than according to political or partisan allegiance gives the organ...
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