Calling cutbacks 'efficiencies' undercuts government's moral authority.
by Susie Proulx-Daigle
SAINT JOHN, June 20, 2013 — "I run my Department like a business," a deputy minister recently told me in a meeting.
This wasn’t a shameful confession or an ironic eye-rolling nod to ham-fisted political direction, but rather an honest-to-goodness assessment of his recent performance and a value statement about the way things ought to be.