More from Alan Freeman available here.When the definitive history of the Harper era is written, the chapter on its systematic degradation of Canada’s public service will be one of the longest — and one of the more painful to read.
Its repeated attacks on public servants for partisan ends, its muzzling of government scientists, its willful dismissal of bureaucratic evidence and advice — the indictment list should be familiar by now. The Harper government’s defeat was greeted by a collective sigh of relief in the federal public service.
