Defending a Contested Ideal: Merit and the Public Service Commission, 1908-2008 (Governance Series) by Luc Juillet
University of Ottawa Press | September 13, 2008 | English | ISBN: 0776606840 | 264 pages | PDF | 11 MB
In 1908, after decades of struggling with a public administration undermined by systemic patronage, the Canadian parliament decided that public servants would be selected on the basis of merit, through a system administered by an independent agency: the Public Service Commission of Canada.