February 11, 2011

Limited Government? Not in Canada

Jeffrey Simpson, Globe and Mail

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This government, however, just doesn’t want to make hard decisions. For example, it’s cutting the number of civil servants through attrition, and instructing senior civil servants to find the savings in “administration.”

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