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Message from the President
The Public Service Commission tables its Annual Report
The Public Service Commission (PSC) has tabled its 2008-2009 Annual Report in Parliament. It also tabled audit reports for Infrastructure Canada, the Canada Border Services Agency, Health Canada and the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, as well as a follow-up audit of the Office of the Correctional Investigator. The PSC also released three studies and updates to four previous studies.
All of these documents, as well as the Report on investigations conducted by the Public Service Commission in 2008-2009, are available on our Web site.
This year was the third full year of operation under the Public Service Employment Act (PSEA), which came into force in 2005. Departments and agencies, and the PSC, continued to make progress in implementing the objectives set out in the Act, with significant achievements being made in some areas. However, the PSC is concerned that there are early and important signs that added vigilance is required to ensure that Canadians continue to benefit from a merit-based, non-partisan public service in the years ahead.
In addition, in the context of the PSC’s preparatory work for the five-year review of the PSEA, Donald Lemaire, Senior Vice-President, and I are holding round-table discussions on impartiality this fall at several Canadian universities as part of a broad-based dialogue on non-partisanship.
Also in this issue of the newsletter, you will find articles about the latest feature in a series of improvements to jobs.gc.ca; a new approach to Aboriginal affiliation for targeted processes; a mobility provision for former ministers’ staff; the 2009 Post-secondary Recruitment Campaign; and political activities.