PAP 3340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Official Bilingualism In Canada, Merit System, Language Testing

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Public Administration
• Course: PAP 3340
• Professor: David Brown

Document Summary

Variations on and alternatives to the merit system. Variations on the merit system: appointments to level, workforce adjustment, representative bureaucracy, official languages, employment equity. Alternatives to the merit system: separate employers within the public sector, contracting out. Citizens see themselves in government: more responsive. Greater sensitivity to social needs, better service: more credible and legitimate. Citizens are more willing to participate and accept obligations, support through taxes. Symbolic importance: government as employer has access to a fair share of talent in society. Normative goals (e. g. quotas) v. objective tests. Early efforts to tilt or over-ride merit: pre-1918 argument against merit, patronage as a form of representation, concern with geographic representation (still an issue) Veterans" preference: post ww1 and again post ww2, restrictions on women (pre-1960s) Post-glassco measures: francophones, declining francophone representation and internal use of french, n. b. , therrien statement. Post ww1 introduction of merit service, indirectly increase in francophone participation: ministerial exempt staff, employment equity groups.