Prime Minister Stephen Harper today welcomed the Twenty-Second Annual Report on the Public Service of Canada from Janice Charette, the Clerk of the Privy Council, Secretary to the Cabinet and head of the Public Service of Canada.
The report highlights a number of the Public Service of Canada’s achievements over the past year in delivering on the Government’s commitments and serving Canadians with excellence, such as:
- the use of innovative technology and unprecedented collaboration between the public, private and non-profit sectors to locate Her Majesty’s Ship Erebus, one of the ill-fated Franklin Expedition ships lost in 1846;
- the devolution of land management from the federal government to the Northwest Territories to place decision-making about land use in the hands of Northerners; and,
- the development of new tools to forecast border wait times and expedite the processing of applications for the most eligible skilled foreign nationals.
It also underscores work underway to achieve the Blueprint 2020 vision to create a more innovative, agile, collaborative and high-performing Public Service of Canada. Reforms underway include efforts to encourage innovation, develop a new information technology infrastructure to facilitate collaboration, and a more coordinated and effective approach to people management and learning.
The report also articulates the Clerk’s priorities for the coming year, which are: reinvigorating recruitment efforts; building healthy, respectful and supportive work environments, with a particular focus on mental health; and developing the policy community to ensure that the Public Service can continue to provide world-class, timely advice to government.
The report is available on the Clerk of the Privy Council’s website: www.clerk.gc.ca.
