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Jennifer Ditchburn's avatar

Thanks for this. The veil needs to be pulled back more often on the complexities the public service is facing, so that the public understands the value in spending time on addressing « boring » things like departmental structure, and why all spending cuts are not created equally. I salute DM Fox for speaking publicly.

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Kevin Newman's avatar

Having worked on the Afganistan extraction I am glad to read they finally recogized some of the issues that contributed to over-bureaucratization and inertia. I might add one more priority - communication with applicants in language tailored to humans who don't work in government. So often I would have to try to explain what was being asked for, and couldn't. And I'm a university-educated Canadian living in comfort. Good on the new DM for standing by her reforms and an open approach to explaining them.

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