Governance Matters
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The King's Speech and One Other
Britain’s Labour government is determined to deliver better even if means more government. That’s an admittedly uncharitable conclusion to their latest, ongoing attempt to ‘fix broken Britain’ and deliver ‘change’.
Two speeches spell it o...
Pickle Meets Petard.
Amber Bracken / The Canadian Press Files Premier Danielle Smith speaks to the media in December 2025. Smith’s referendums ‘are a hodge-podge of performative policy questions,’ David McLaughlin writes.
Pickle, meet petard. Alberta Premier D...
The Culture Wars Come for the G-G
Adrian Wyld / The Canadian Press. Louise Arbour speaks after being named the next Governor General during a news conference in Ottawa on May 5.
The culture wars have come for Canada’s new Governor General. The institutional symbol of our c...
Future Civil Service, Whitehall-style.
If words and titles alone mattered, Britain’s Labour government would have the ‘fastest, smartest, bestest’ public service EVER. They don’t. But not for lack of trying. From “mission-led government” to ‘sludge reform’, there’s a raft of for...
Danger Close: Debt
The Canadian Press. Federal Finance and National Revenue Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne holds up the book of the spring economic update as he delivers it in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on April 28.
What a differ...
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David McLaughlin - A former provincial Clerk and Cabinet Secretary, federal chief of staff, provincial deputy minister, president and CEO, and campaign manager. Writing on Governance, Public Policy, and Politics.
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