PS should follow feds' lead on stimulus spending, cut bureaucratic red tape

A new report is calling on the public service to apply the federal government's Economic Action Plan's bureaucratic streamlining.

The federal government should permanently apply the same streamlining methods it's using to get its $52-billion stimulus spending quickly out the door more widely across the public service and cut red tape, says former clerk of the Privy Council Paul Tellier.

Although the government has been criticized for its lack of accountability when it comes to the speed at which the budget stimulus was implemented during the recession, a new...