The Civil Service of Canada (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Civil Service of Canada The Right Honourable Robert Laird Borden, Premier of Canada, has enunciated his views as to the proper status of Canada´s public service in the following words: - Appointment by Merit Public officials should be appointed upon considerations of capacity and personal character and not of party service alone. We boast of our representative institutions, but these cannot be enduring if they develop a debased public service. Civil Service Reform A thorough and complete reformation of the laws relating to the Civil Service should be put into effect, so that future appointments shall be made by an Independent Commission acting upon the report of examiners after competitive examination. Of necessity some appointments must be left to the executive, but for the rest I prefer a competitive system of appointment to the present partisan one. Three-fourths of the time of members supporting a government is occupied with matters of patronage. Party patronage and party service have more weight than character or capacity. The public service is cumbered with useless officials. I am convinced that we shall perform a great public duty by establishing in this country that system which prevails in Great Britain, under which a member of Parliament has practically no voice in or control over appointments to the Civil Service. Abuse of Patronage A government holds the power of patronage for the benefit of the public, and it is entitled to fill public office solely in the public interest. The duties of these officials are for the public benefit and are fixed by the laws of the country. Their salaries are paid out of the people´s money. To use the power of filling such positions as a reward of party service and without regard to the character and capacity of the individual selected, is a Gross Breach of a Solemn Public Trust. A private trustee so dishonouring his office would be subject to punishment by the criminal law, but the one punishment which can be meted out for such abuse of a public trust is dismissal by the electorate. Superannuation In 1898, the Act providing for pensions for retired Civil Servants was repealed. This course of action set aside the example of every prudent business corporation, which would have led it to improve and extend the act. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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