Mr. Michael Wernick at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

April 24th, 2023 / 4:45 p.m.

Jarislowsky Chair in Public Sector Management, University of Ottawa, As an Individual

I had a general view of what was happening in government because there's something called GC InfoBase—which I recommend to you—which shows the costs of government. I was not day-to-day manager of the public service; that's the secretary of the Treasury Board. I had a general awareness, but my role as cabinet secretary was really to get things through cabinet and to get initiatives launched and implemented.

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