Category: bureaucrats

Michael Zwaagstra: When It Comes to Education, Government Bureaucrats Don’t Always Know Best

Commentary Suppose you were learning how to drive for the first time and you had a choice between two instructors. One of them, a government employee, has a success rate of 26 percent while the other, a private contractor, has a 90 percent success rate. Which instructor would you hire? The choice is obvious. However,…


‘Right Over the Target’: Former Trump Adviser Says Federal Bureaucrats Must Be Held Accountable

Former Trump adviser James Sherk says the pushback in Washington against an executive order that would allow the president to fire federal employees is confirmation that the policy is necessary. Sherk is the director of the Center for American Freedom at the America First Policy Institute. In an interview for EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders” program,…


John Robson: Pumping More Money Into Canada’s Health-Care System Won’t Fix It

Commentary Can I really be writing about health-care reform again? It’s a First World problem to fear filing the same column twice, because some important aspect of a situation becomes timely and you forget you already said it. I once did it by accident, and the worst part is only one other person noticed. But…


Info Watchdog Raps Privy Council Office for Terminating Access Requests From Public

OTTAWA—The federal information watchdog has chastised the prime minister’s bureaucrats for shutting down several requests from the public without good cause. In a series of decisions made public Tuesday, information commissioner Caroline Maynard reveals the Privy Council Office simply closed four Access to Information requests to avoid missing due dates. In each case, the body…