Does Independence Matter?
From Elections Canada to the nuclear watchdog, the Harper government seems to disagree July–August 2008
The old saw is that if the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. For Canada’s federal government, the hammer is partisanship and, of late, the unlucky nails have been a disparate set of independent public agencies, from Elections Canada to the Canadian Military Complaints Commission to the Canadian Nuclear Safety…