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The government’s ‘air traffic controller’: peeking behind the curtain of the PCO

It's an office you want to cycle through if you want to go places in the bureaucracy, say observers. The PCO's mandate is to organize the public service to help implement the government's agenda.

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BY EMILY HAWS
February 7, 2018

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The government’s ‘air traffic controller’: peeking behind the curtain of the PCO

It's an office you want to cycle through if you want to go places in the bureaucracy, say observers. The PCO's mandate is to organize the public service to help implement the government's agenda.

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