Is Canada’s public service protected from a change like Trump?

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What is a politically loyal public service? Who is the loyal public servant?

If those questions are a little strange to you, that’s right. They have.

When Trump’s administration exits with a steroid-jouss of speeds from the initial volume, it would have done Ben Johnson In the layer of administrative orders, a significant element is promised to be a large -scale re -engineering of the US Civil Service.

Most of the newspaper coverage has focused on Trump’s desire to dramatically reduce the level of civil service. In Memo Fork on the road. High Elon Musk, who attracts media attention for this project.

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The sleeper of the email, and the most important part of the most important part of the work: “Federal workers must have trusted, loyal, reliable employees… when we are progressing to the employees that are applicable and advanced. ”

How far is the Trump administration to implement an indirect loyalty test for civil service? Does something like this come to a capital near you soon?

Fortunately, in the north of the 49th, we have a developed, constitutional and monarchy form of the government of our American relatives. In our organization, the government and the state have occupied different structures. Our Prime Minister is not the state president. Our public service is not to the Prime Minister or Cabinet, but rather Clerk of the Brevi CouncilWho responds to the crown at the end. In practice, these lines can be pushed and fade, but the architecture is firm.

Why is this important outside the lecture hall? Well, for one thing, faith in this country’s public service comes under the political power of the crown. This gives a public servant a place to hang its believer. She may support the policies of a new government, or her nose. But during her work, she is politically neutral. That neutral and faith reflects the freedom of states Day -to -day When they come and inevitably go to our democracy. The political neutrality of the state confirms the liberal democratic evidence of this government organization.

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Not south of our border. He is the president of the President’s Administration and the head of state. Yes, the US Civil Service is historically expected to be politically neutral below the highest levels of political appointments. Moreover, civil servants took office to protect the constitution. Moreover, there are protections for civil servants from arbitrary dismissal on the basis of party-political interests of various branches of the government.

But after all, the deep architectural structures that divide the bureaucracy are like here. The commitment to protect the US Constitution includes the power of the administration in the Constitution, opening some anti -liberal ways. Trump tested this by expanding the type of civil servants who can remove this at the end of his first term “Table F” Position (something that has been canceled).

The fork in the Road Memo is aimed at reviewing the task, the new schedule policy/industry post has changed the original table F language. In the context of this population movement, the lightning speed of all these evidence is very carefully planning from the Extra regiment in the last four years.

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If you want to get deep into the weeds in the subdivision of all organs of the government for the leader’s policy, start Carl SchmidThe romantic interest in the extreme right and parts of the post -left -left side of liberalism.

It would be contradictory if the 21st -century -grown constitutional monarchy proves more opposition to the category of anti -liberal dictatorship than the republics that fought the revolutionary wars for the overthrow of the monarchy.

There are no straight lines in history or politics for eternal frustration and lust of academics.

Our government and government organization’s structure can be proven to be very successful in the meteorological storm, thinking that we are managing the trading on the maple leaf for the 51st star on a foreign flag.

The integrity of the public service may prove to be a canary in the coal mine.

Paul Abela He is a co -professor of philosophy at the University of Acadia.

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