Commentary
Bureaucracies and civil services have long been sacred cows in North America. Politicians pay lip service to finding inefficiencies and reducing the size of the government, but rarely make cuts for fear of a political backlash.
That may all be about to change as President-elect Donald Trump has appointed Elon Musk to head the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), together with former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. Trump isn’t showing any indication the department will be a token creation, as he referred to it as “The Manhattan Project of our time.” He plans to act swiftly with government reforms and the actions taken will impact public policy in Canada….