In Search of a New Covenant

Abstract

Gilles Paquet and Lise PigeonIntroductionThe Public Service Culture in QuestionThe Context for the Transformation of the Public ServiceFrom Here to the New Covenant in Six Difficult StepsConclusionGilles Paquet is Professor of Economics and Public Management at the Faculty of Administrationof the University of Ottawa and Senior Research Fellow at the Canadian Centre for ManagementDevelopment. Lise Pigeon is a faculty member at the Canadian Centre for ManagementDevelopment and is the Director of the Centre’s Executive Leadership Program.A paper prepared for a volume edited by Evert Lindquist provisionally entitled GovernmentRestructuring and the Future of Career Public Service in Canada to be published by the Instituteof Public Administration of Canada. This paper was developed as a result of our teachingexperience on governance and leadership at the Canadian Centre for Management Developmentand therefore benefited considerably from exchanges with many colleagues at CCMD but neitherour colleagues at CCMD nor the Centre itself should be held responsible for views that areentirely our own.