{"id":1986,"date":"2024-08-28T19:29:49","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T19:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secteur-public-sector.ca\/?post_type=video&#038;p=1986"},"modified":"2024-09-02T22:57:53","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T22:57:53","slug":"celebrating-75-years","status":"publish","type":"video","link":"https:\/\/secteur-public-sector.ca\/en\/video\/celebrating-75-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Booster Shot of Confidence &#8211; Celebrating 75 years of Canadian Public Administration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Booster Shot of Confidence: Celebrating 75 Years of Canadian Public Administration\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6JkjNKfCauE?list=PLyZ8j7bBT7FsYwofICXh763Be28eMMsld\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Transcript<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, good morning everybody. My name is Clayton Norris. I&#8217;m Vice President, Indigenous Services with MNP. MNP is a chartered accounting, consulting, and tax firm headquartered in Calgary. I&#8217;m coming to you today from the Siksika Nation. I&#8217;d like to recognize the traditional territory that I&#8217;m on, and for those who are coming in from different regions, I&#8217;m in Treaty Seven, which includes Siksika, Piikani, Kainai, Stoney Nakoda, and M\u00e9tis Nation Region Three.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, welcome to the breakout session. I&#8217;m really pleased to introduce Michael Wernick. Michael Wernick has been a Canadian public sector leader for over 38 years. He served as Canada&#8217;s Clerk of the Privy Council and has expertise in Indigenous issues, intergovernmental relations, governance, and management. Just last year, he published a very insightful book on governing Canada, titled &#8220;A Guide to the Trade Craft of Politics.&#8221; So, without further ado, over to you, Michael. For anyone having any questions, I think Michael&#8217;s going to speak for about 15 or 20 minutes and have a general conversation. Please use the chat function for questions, and after his comments, we&#8217;ll have a question and answer period for the remaining time. Over to you, Michael.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MICHEAL SPEAKING<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks, Clayton, and thanks, everybody, for joining us and for your interest. Let me acknowledge that I&#8217;m speaking to you from the traditional territory of the Algonquin nations and peoples of this area. I&#8217;m also speaking about a 15-minute walk away from the occupation zone in downtown Ottawa. It&#8217;s been an eventful month in Ottawa. Thanks to IPAC, and congratulations to IPAC on the conference and on the 75th anniversary that it&#8217;s about to celebrate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, let me start. I&#8217;ll talk for maybe about 15 minutes. Let me start with what my remarks are going to be about and what they&#8217;re not about. I&#8217;m not here to add to a long list of challenges, problems, and issues on Canada&#8217;s to-do list. I will do that in other forums; you can follow me on LinkedIn and elsewhere. But I have a very different purpose in mind this afternoon. I accepted the invitation from IPAC several months ago because I saw it as an opportunity to provide a brief and rare moment of celebration \u2013 a celebration of Canada and of how public policy and public administration have contributed so much to us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, we do have a long to-do list, and the issue for today is: Can we deal with it, or is Canada in deep trouble? I&#8217;m going to present a case for confidence and suggest a 2020s variant of optimism. I have no intention of trying to be balanced and objective in this session. I accepted the invitation before Christmas and before the events of the last few weeks, or even of yesterday. I have adjusted my remarks a little bit because it&#8217;s become clear that we have a second front on our hands as leaders. This goes beyond the realm of just better public administration or a better public policy mix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This generation of leaders is also going to have to work very hard to preserve and strengthen our core operating system: democratic governance under the rule of law. This can no longer be taken for granted. It isn&#8217;t easy to assess the long-term impacts of the events of the last month, but I do know this: my whole life and my whole career, pundits, professors, and experts have been catastrophizing about Canada. If you go back and read the op-ed pages or the bookshelves of the last 30 years, somehow we were always facing economic decline, a pending stock market crash, the breakup of our country, the death of our democracy, the fragmentation of our society, or the triumph of extremism. Every year, someone writes a piece suggesting we&#8217;re headed toward becoming Argentina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s the flaw in doom saying and in following it through doom scrolling. You all know probably this trick in statistics: you can present the same data and make the curve flatter or steeper depending on the scale you use. Well, the same is true for history. I don&#8217;t want to be misheard, so let me take a straw man right off the table: by celebrating accomplishments and progress, we&#8217;re not giving in to complacency. Pointing out success does not equate to denying, excusing, or whitewashing failures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, we have issues and challenges as a country. Yes, there&#8217;s a big agenda around public policy and administration that needs attention. The better question I would put to you this afternoon is: should you be confident we can deal with it? My answer is yes, but it&#8217;s going to require a blend of realism, pragmatism, effort, ambition, perseverance, and most of all, a commitment to values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the world of trying to make the world a bit better, there are two ways to smother reform and forward progress. One of them is to be toxically positive \u2013 complacent, in denial, strutting around saying &#8220;we&#8217;re number one&#8221; despite the evidence of what problems are emerging. One of the keys to Canada, I argue, is that we always have a restless sense of trying to do better \u2013 a range of feedback loops that always point out what could and should have been done better. This conference is one of them, and there are lots more to come this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But my point is: you can also be toxically negative. We put our progress at risk when we lose context. If everything we hear is a negative loop, it undermines trust by voters and taxpayers, fuels cynicism, and fuels disengagement. Distorted perceptions about where we are distort our choices and how we look at options and possibilities for our future. It can undermine confidence and morale, and it can sap the will to work hard and keep striving for better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Inside the public sector, if all you hear is constant negative feedback laden with hindsight, it stifles risk-taking, stifles innovation, and rewards timid incrementalism. It helps preserve a status quo. I think we have to be mindful all the time that exposed feedback is always infused with confirmation bias; people see what they want to see, and we have to make accommodation for that. It&#8217;s a very human trait \u2013 it&#8217;s not going away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We need to ensure that the whole point of exposed feedback is to quickly absorb lessons, integrate them, and move on, creating actionable choices about positive change. So, my question is: does Canada have learning software? My view is that we have to vaccinate Canada, to use a 2022 metaphor, against populism, polarization, and shutting down debate. We also have to vaccinate against cynicism and defeatism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To me, that means that once in a while, we need to take a booster shot of confidence and optimism. We have taken on big challenges, we have done big things together, and we have learned from our failures and moved on. So, the 75th anniversary of IPAC seems like a good place to remind ourselves that we are not a weak or fragile country. We&#8217;ve got this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In fact, Canada has a huge advantage. The metaphor I&#8217;ve used a lot in the last two years is that of the big bicycle crash that you may have seen on television, where a whole mass of riders crashes into each other and tumbles. That was the pandemic in many ways. Canada was at the very front, or at least near the very front of that pack, and now it&#8217;s poised to get back and pull away from the others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Canada, most of the time, we&#8217;re really only competing with our own ambition, our own possibilities, and our own aspirations. Canada has an advantage \u2013 an advantage to be found not in one thing, but in a combination of factors. Canada is a composite, a cumulative combination package. The diversity of our economy is a great strength and a source of resilience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The social capital values of solidarity and social cohesion we\u2019ve built are another strength. We are an open society committed to democracy, the rule of law, human rights, transparency, and inclusive participation. We have governance that allows us to make decisions and make those decisions stick. We have an engaged citizenry and civil society. And yes, IPAC, we have competent, responsive public administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other countries are strong in one or two of these things and maybe better than Canada in one or two, but they lack others. So, ask yourself every day: with which country would you trade problem sets and be better off? Which is better placed for the next decade? Would you be happier today at a conference in London, Washington, or Berlin?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The key point for this event is that our advantage wasn&#8217;t an accident. It wasn&#8217;t some piece of luck. Where we are is the product of Canadians\u2019 hard work and diligence. The foundation of public policy and public administration supporting democratic government was built over 75 years by cohort after cohort of people just like you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, let me start with the economy because economists always dominate conferences and discourse. Frankly, the economy does matter \u2013 it\u2019s the ability to generate jobs that support people, families, and communities. It generates the incomes and wealth that can be taxed by the state or channeled into private donations and philanthropic contributions. Choices about the public sector are co-dependent on the need for a strong private sector and vice versa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you zoom the scale back, Canada has a rare combination of natural resources, manufacturing, and broad ranges of service sectors. Unlike Europe and Japan, we are not hostage to other countries for energy or key commodities. Yes, we need to talk about China more, but zoom out the scale: our exposure to China and the geopolitics of the next decade is actually lower than most other G20 countries. We still have huge untapped potential in food and agri-food if we have the will to seize it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We haven&#8217;t been complacent, though, and bet our whole future on resource extraction. We&#8217;ve secured a strong place in the knowledge economy. Toronto is now the second most important financial center in North America after New York. We have many areas of optimism about our future: well-placed and emergent sectors of the 21st-century economy like AI, quantum computing, and biotech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We were ranked ninth in the world as a place to invest in digital sectors by CEO World Magazine. In a world that&#8217;s moving fast to electrify and decarbonize, we already generate 82 percent of our electricity without carbon emissions. We have the potential to export to the U.S. as it electrifies, and the transition still facing economies like Germany and the U.S. is very well advanced here. But we all know that the key to the economy these days is people. Capital flows to where talent is, and in Canada, our people are a huge strength.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our age structure is shifting, creating new challenges for future conferences, but zoom back the scale\u2014we are not aging nearly as fast as some. China, Japan, and Korea are managing absolute population decline that&#8217;s straining them, limiting their potential, and is going to accelerate. Italy today has the age structure of southern Florida, but we are still growing. One reason is we&#8217;ve built one of the most successful migration policy suites in the world. We forged a strong political and social consensus around migration; nobody does it better, and certainly not at the scale Canada does. Not an accident\u2014every single year we&#8217;ve taken in more than 200,000 newcomers for decades; over the last decade, 300,000, and last year, 400,000. The point is not the number, which we can debate, but that we&#8217;ve created a suite of policies and programs at every level of government to absorb that intake and turn it into an asset for the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bigger point is not economic, it&#8217;s social. Canada is a society in which one in five of us was born somewhere else\u2014one in two in Toronto\u2014but nobody has run in Canada successfully on anti-immigrant politics, which are commonplace in the United Kingdom, France, Holland, Germany, Australia, and yes, the United States. The sense of Canadian identity and solidarity has been forged not out of blood and birth but out of values. Our greatest accomplishment, compared to other migration-receiving countries, is that we blend newcomers with the native-born and have created systems that make Canada one of the most educated populations in the world, whether you see it as a workforce or a citizenry. Zoom back the scale\u2014our rate of post-secondary education participation is number one in the world and has been for years. About 56 percent of adults have some post-secondary credentials, and that&#8217;s not an accident. Generations have worked on quality and accessibility. When we realized in the 1990s we had a problem with high school completion, we turned our minds to it, cooperated, reformed, and in one decade, raised the high school completion rate from 78 to 88 percent. We&#8217;re now second out of our peer countries. That&#8217;s not an accident, and I use it as a demonstration that we can do big things together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We still have to tackle work on literacy and foreign credentials, but we can do it with some confidence. We have a lot of work to do to accelerate progress on the education of Indigenous children, but I believe it will yield to good policy, good administration, and political leadership. A particular achievement that sets us apart is that we&#8217;re closer to gender parity than almost anywhere else. Canada is far more likely to mobilize the full talent, skills, and perspectives of half of our population. Our female participation in the labor force in 2019, before the pandemic, was number one in the world, and that&#8217;s not an accident. On the World Bank Index of Women, Business, and the Law, Canada scored a perfect 100. We rank second out of 170 countries. Canada&#8217;s birth rate by adolescent mothers is half what it is in the United States, and here&#8217;s a simple metric, but a telling one: A Canadian girl born this year has a life expectancy of 84 and a 92 percent probability of living to the age of 65. That&#8217;s the new data, and it&#8217;s not an accident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another dimension of our progress that shows we can do big things together if we apply ourselves is connectivity. Despite our incredible geography, we&#8217;re very close to achieving what I would call herd connectivity. Pre-pandemic, the numbers were 88 percent of Canadians with access to the internet; actually 93 percent if you use a different measure. Eighty-eight percent of us had smartphones, and 85 percent of us used social media regularly. That can only have grown over the last couple of years as governments and people turned to closing the gap for the last 12 percent. We could now have conferences that tackle the agenda of a digital society, a digital economy, and a digital government. You all know how this is affecting the economy, but in the private sector, we&#8217;re moving beyond the early days of government online or one or two cool apps and opening up exciting new possibilities for how we deliver education, health, mental health, courts, tribunals, and regulation. Some of the stickiest, most change-resistant systems in the public sector are entering a period of innovation, and we&#8217;re finding ways to serve populations that have been hard to reach: the elderly, persons with disabilities, rural communities, newcomers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before somebody pops up in the chat room with &#8216;Well, what about Estonia?&#8217;\u2014sure, learn from it. But keep in mind, Estonia is the size of Vancouver Island. You can fit 1,300 Singapores in Canada. What we&#8217;ve done here is an incredible accomplishment in a country that crosses five time zones and 40 degrees of latitude. Zoom the scale back\u2014we&#8217;re a large federation. We&#8217;ve kept a federalist approach to sharing a common space alive and well. Separatism is a bigger threat to the United Kingdom or Spain than it is to Canada. Zoom the scale back, and the regional tensions are lower than they&#8217;ve been in my lifetime. I was there in the &#8217;80s and &#8217;90s. You often hear a certain amount of whinging about the federation and how complex it is, and that it&#8217;s holding us back. Some people have a kind of unitary state envy, but I&#8217;m firmly of the view the federation works. It allows a diversity of people to live together peacefully, and just look at the news today to see how relevant that is. Federalism allows a diversity of solutions to common problems. It creates responsiveness much more than one-size-fits-all governing from a national capital, and if anything, we need more experimentation and more innovation in fields like primary health care or seniors&#8217; care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a world of uncertainty, we&#8217;ve established strong mechanisms to share risks, share resources, get through hard times, and spread opportunity to provide reasonably comparable services everywhere in the country. If one region or sector has a downturn or setback, the other regions and sectors step up, and that&#8217;s not an accident\u2014we built that. The federation comes together under threat, whether it was Donald Trump threatening to terminate NAFTA or the pandemic. And whatever the noise is, it&#8217;s coming together around climate. Beyond federalism, the software we have is a government system that lets us take decisions and make them stick. We have a great scale advantage\u2014big enough to have an impact on the world and be at all the important tables, small enough that you can convene the right people in any combination in consultative and deliberative fora like this one. Canada has what the military calls &#8216;inside lines&#8217;\u2014we can quickly mobilize and allocate our people, and more importantly, our ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zoom back the scale, and Canada has done some hard things that have stymied other countries. I mentioned the success in raising high school completion rates. We also achieved big strides in reducing seniors&#8217; poverty. We adjusted retirement savings, the mix of pension schemes. We took on child poverty, overhauled taxes, benefits, and services over the past 20 or 30 years. We&#8217;ve made huge dents in a wide variety of metrics of health and safety. We overhauled our consumption taxes in the 1990s. We refinanced and strengthened the public pension system twice. We&#8217;ve secured trade and investment agreements, opened up large parts of our economy to the world. We&#8217;ve ridden waves of the global economy and responded to long periods of double-digit inflation, recessions, high unemployment, turmoil in global financial markets, high commodity prices, and low commodity prices. I recall years where we went through an exchange rate in the 65-cent U.S. range and worried we were becoming a banana republic. Then we had an exchange rate above parity and worried we were catching Dutch disease. Neither happened\u2014we adapted to both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And that&#8217;s the point\u2014these were real issues, they had real impacts on families and communities. But the point I want to stress is not just that we somehow got through it, dinged and scratched, but that we learned, adapted, and adjusted laws, policies, programs, and regulations. We bent but didn&#8217;t break. We didn&#8217;t become weaker or more fragile; we became stronger and more resilient. Our society did not fracture; our governance did not implode. And all of that catastrophizing that was so abundant at the time was wrong. Zoom back the scale, and you see that Canada has built a rare combination of democratic politics, free and fair elections, an engaged citizenry, a robust and independent judicial system, and a vigilant media. We have been reminded this month that democratic governance under the rule of law is a precious inheritance, and it&#8217;s a legacy to leave our children. Look around the world\u2014it&#8217;s under siege, literally, in places like Hungary, Poland, Turkey, and yes, the United States. We have to work hard to protect it here in Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There certainly is an agenda of future-proofing our democracy to be pursued in the months ahead. Yes, better is possible, as somebody once said, but we start with something worth fighting for, something worth passing on. Let&#8217;s start with the basics\u2014don&#8217;t take my word for it, what did the NGOs in the field say on democracy? Freedom House gave Canada a score of 98 out of 100 in 2021. Yes, we lost a point; it was because of the Quebec secularism bill, but we scored higher than all other G7 countries and well higher than the United States. We don&#8217;t say it often enough\u2014we have a strong democracy and a strong public sector supporting and serving it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On corruption, Transparency International had us near the top, 12th out of almost 200 countries. In the emergent measures of open government, Canada was number two in the Open Data Barometer, number five in the Global Open Data Index. Our national civil service has been ranked in the top handful for years. In 2019, the last data I found, we were number three on the Oxford Civil Service Effectiveness Index, and the Legatum Institute ranked Canada seventh in the Index of Best Governed Countries. There are aspects of public administration we&#8217;re truly excellent at, and we take them for granted. You just saw the first census release a few weeks ago\u2014we have the best statistics agency in the world, and that matters in an age of contested facts. We have world-class revenue agencies, and those institutions can tell you incredible stories of adaptation and transformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I can tell you personally that when the UK leapt off the cliff into Brexit\u2014not cool\u2014and had to think through how to create new border management regimes, both the Brits and the Irish called us and came to Canada first. The Brits tried to steal some of our trade negotiators\u2014we&#8217;re definitely the best on the planet\u2014and they tried to tap our experience on running a federation when Scottish nationalism reared its head. Our people are scattered around the world in international organizations, and they&#8217;re influencers far beyond the geopolitical weight of Canada, and they&#8217;re usually the ones who try to improve the governance and operations of those organizations. That strong public sector with global reach is not an accident, and I repeat, it&#8217;s not a reason to be complacent about the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, Canadians are very quick, when they get among themselves, to be gloomy and grumpy, so let me close with a few measures about how other people see us. In 2020, Canada was the most desired destination in the world for skilled workers\u2014Boston Consulting Group placed us number one out of 190 countries. We were the number four destination in the world for international students. The Reputation Institute placed Canada number one in a global survey of most respected countries. CEO World ranked Canada number four as the best country for its own citizens, number three as the best place to start a career, and number seven as the best place for older people to live\u2014yes, they know about winter. This is largely because of our cities. In the Global Livability Index, there are three Canadian cities in the top seven. The Economist Intelligence Unit lists the most livable cities\u2014three Canadian cities in the top seven, not the same three. Of the cities with the least polluted air on the planet, there are five Canadian cities in the top 25. The quality of our cities is going to be really important in the 21st century in attracting people and capital, and I don&#8217;t believe any of these things is going to evaporate in a few weeks or months because of what&#8217;s going on in the short term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So what&#8217;s my takeaway? Not to gloat, not to strut. One of the takeaway points is if Canada sometimes looks or feels like an oasis or an island in a troubled world, it wasn&#8217;t an accident, and it wasn&#8217;t luck\u2014it was hard work. It was a product of decades of work by people who work at all levels of government, especially underappreciated local and city governments and service agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Second, yes, of course, there are big issues to tackle and big problems to face, and you&#8217;re probably chomping at the bit, ready to challenge me and say, &#8216;Yeah, but what about this, Michael? What about the people left out? What about the people falling behind?&#8217; Well, that&#8217;s great because then my vaccine shot is working. I want you to connect with that feeling\u2014a restless sense of more to be done, a job unfinished, work still in progress, of needing to fully live up to our values and our aspirations, especially a need to widen the circle of inclusion. That&#8217;s the story of Canada. Snark, snide social media commentary\u2014that&#8217;s not an agenda, it&#8217;s just inflammation. Cynicism, defeatism\u2014that&#8217;s not an agenda, it&#8217;s an autoimmune response that can weaken our defenses. An agenda for Canada requires resilience and resolution, hard work, commitment, humility, empathy, and most of all, learning from the past in order to make a better future. But it requires hope, optimism, and confidence, and there&#8217;s every reason to have those. We are not weak, we are not fragile, we are not falling apart, and we are not doomed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It looks like this generation of leaders has to recommit its talent and its passion, and each of you has some scope to exercise leadership and to contribute to a better Canada. I thank you for what you&#8217;re going to do in the years ahead. Thank you. Merci beaucoup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Michael, thank you very much for those great opening words. For all the participants, please post any questions into the chat or turn your cameras on, and we can get you unmuted if you want to post any questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You know, I&#8217;ve got a question for you, Michael. I&#8217;m a member of Cold Lake First Nations. At MNP, we work with about 300 First Nation and Inuit communities across the country. In your prior career, you worked for a number of years with Indigenous peoples and nations across Canada. Where do we fit in, and are we part of the story in the future? Can you provide any commentary on that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sure, yeah, that&#8217;s a very important question to start off with. I started working on Indigenous issues in 1985. I went to my first fly-in community in 1986. I went to a First Ministers&#8217; meeting on Indigenous issues in 1987. So I won&#8217;t do the 30-year arc and how things have progressed or not. We will all see a ton of census data next year, by the way, and people can do that. We all know there&#8217;s more to do, that it&#8217;s urgent, that it is a huge gap in the story that I have told in so many ways and a major national pressure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So looking forward, I mean, I guess I would just throw in a few comments. I think that there is a risk of having a blind spot around urban Indigenous people, which is now nearly half of the people that self-identify as Indigenous. We need to pay more attention to their reality. We now have second and third-generation urban Indigenous people, so where do they fit in both on the Indigenous side and in the exercise of rights and governance, and in the rest of the country as well?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My view has always been that we have to work hard on economic reconciliation. To really fulfill self-government or to really fulfill individual opportunities, you have to create an economy that generates income, jobs, wealth, and opportunities, and there&#8217;s so much more to be done on the economic reconciliation side, but lots of opportunities as well. I think that there&#8217;s always going to be an agenda where, in order for the rights that we recognize and affirm\u2014which hardly any other country does, by the way; Australia does not\u2014those rights are meaningful when there is the governance and the support systems to deliver them, whether it&#8217;s education, child welfare, health, or whatever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I do believe every child matters, but I do think we have to do more than wear shirts once a year or wear ribbons or whatever. If every child matters, then it&#8217;s unacceptable that Indigenous kids go to bed tonight not protected by fire protection legislation. It&#8217;s not acceptable that Indigenous kids today are the only ones in Canada that are not protected and assisted by education legislation. Those are things that need to be fixed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, yes, to truly fulfill our aspirations and our sense of ourselves, the arc of history has to be bent to include Indigenous peoples more successfully than we have in the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks, Michael. I know it&#8217;s a very challenging subject, but also lots of opportunities that we see across the country. We&#8217;ve got a question from Howard in the chat. I&#8217;ll read it for you, Michael: &#8216;Some attendees at today&#8217;s conference are also volunteers with IPAC&#8217;s various regional groups. How can IPAC, as an institution, help Canada&#8217;s tradition of good, competent public administration? Is there a role for IPAC to help advance the agenda of provincial, federal cabinet secretaries, and municipal CAOs across Canada?&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yeah, it&#8217;s a really good question. One of the things I like about IPAC is it does span the whole broad public sector. One in five Canadians works for the public sector, and some of the most interesting and challenging issues of our time are going to be largely dealt with by provincial legislatures and governments or city governments. So, I think that most of them are going to require cooperation across levels of government, working together, and you can pick your issue\u2014I can give you examples. I think IPAC is a valuable connector, bringing people together. Some of the challenges of running an effective public service, whether it&#8217;s on the service side or the internal services side, are common; we can learn from each other, and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">IPAC may want to join the fray on future-proofing our democracy. It&#8217;s very clear a lot of Canadians just don&#8217;t understand the basics of how our government works and how you can advocate and deliver change. So I think maybe there&#8217;s a role in civic education, getting out to the other 38 million Canadians over the next little while. But I think the learning software\u2014the metaphor I&#8217;m using a lot this year\u2014is very much about sharing best practices and failures and dialogue and conversation, not shutting people down because they&#8217;re feds or because they work for the province. Those are very valuable contributions. We&#8217;re going to have to operate in the next decades at a faster pace than the decades when I was coming up through the system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, pace is going to be really, really challenging. The good news is, as I said, these tools of collaborative sharing platforms break down, to some extent, the geography and the idea that you have to get on a plane and stay in a hotel in Ottawa to reach people. We can gather any group of Canadians that we want to put together at any time, and so the art of consultation, engagement, and mobilization, I think, is moving into a new era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Great, we&#8217;ve got a question from Joshua, and I think maybe I&#8217;ll add in some of my own. A couple of years ago, you said you remember reading it, and you said you were worried about our country. Today, you&#8217;re telling us a little bit of a different story, and you&#8217;re saying to be confident. Now, aligning with Joshua&#8217;s question, there&#8217;s the point that, in the last couple of weeks, we&#8217;ve had some interesting events happen. What would you recommend to the orders of government in the rhetoric and working relationship with Canadians across the country?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yeah, I know it&#8217;s a really good question. In the spring of 2019, I felt that we were probably being too complacent about our country and our governance, and I decided to use a stage I knew I would have to issue a bit of a wake-up call. Today, three years later, I would say, if anything, we&#8217;re probably at risk of being too alarmist and too pessimistic. I think both things can be true because a lot&#8217;s happened in the last three years. As I said earlier, there is an agenda of protecting and future-proofing our democracy. We won&#8217;t continue that arc of progress if we let the basic decision-making software\u2014coming together and taking decisions as a democratic society\u2014erode. I&#8217;m not dismissing that there are threats, but I&#8217;ve had three years to think about it, and writing the book about governance and how it works actually gave me a chance to sort of zoom back the scale and think about it with a bit longer time horizon than I was doing back in 2019. My view is, if you zoom back the scale, there&#8217;s a lot of things we do well, and if you don&#8217;t believe that, at least believe they&#8217;re worth fighting for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Great, maybe I&#8217;ll tie in the questions. Our neighbors to the south obviously have a lot of influence over Canada, Canadian lifestyle, culture, and values through media and other channels. Are you confident in what&#8217;s happening south of the border? If not, how do you think that will impact Canadians and our prospects going forward?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oh, these are big questions. One of the effects of the last month may be getting dragged into the partisan vortex in the United States and becoming a football for them to pound at each other\u2014that&#8217;s a bad metaphor. We are now on the radar screen of Tucker Carlson and Fox News, being used as an example. We always have been to some extent, but that is a problem in that sense, in the short term. In the longer view\u2014and I&#8217;ve been, as you know, a sort of fanboy and student of American history my whole life\u2014no, I&#8217;m not optimistic about the States. I think they&#8217;re in deep trouble and at high risk. The lesson for Canadians, because we can&#8217;t really do much to affect that, is we have to become preppers. We have to think through the scenarios and be ready for them. There is a scenario where the Americans get their act together and enter a period of stability and prosperity, and that&#8217;s great, but there&#8217;s also the possibility that they sink deeper into polarization, conflict, and division, and all these forces only intensify. We should think through what that means for Canada because we&#8217;re not going to be an island. There&#8217;s even a scenario where America basically becomes an authoritarian, nationalistic autocracy and ceases to be a democracy in anything other than the shell. What does that mean for Canada? Now, I don&#8217;t know how to weight those probabilities, but I know they&#8217;re all on the table, and Canadians, as a smaller power stuck between China, Russia, and the United States, have to think through our own resilience in so many ways, whether it&#8217;s economic supply chains or our democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yeah, definitely interesting events that are transpiring not only in America but also in Europe over the last few days. Maybe we&#8217;ll shift to Matt&#8217;s question in the chat there, and thanks, Matt. We&#8217;re all going through Marshall-level efforts on carbon dioxide emissions, and looking at political cleavages, what are your thoughts on how public administration and servants are really going to look at, react, and adapt to the CO2, the new green energy, the zero carbon levies policies, etc., that are impacting Canadians across the country?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, we&#8217;re taking on some big issues today. As a parent, I worry about climate and the impact on biodiversity. As a friend of mine once said, I&#8217;m a 64-year-old baby boomer. The most important fact about my lifetime is that we have lost half of the planet&#8217;s biodiversity since I was born. So, yeah, there&#8217;s plenty to worry about and to take action on, and it will require global solutions. One lesson is that we cannot say, &#8216;Well, they&#8217;re not going to do anything in China, so why should we do something in Canada?&#8217; I think there&#8217;s a moral obligation to do our part and to help develop answers both here and that can be used around the world. There&#8217;s a global citizenship angle to that for sure, for my kids and my grandkids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The other thing is it&#8217;s not all about the governments in the public sector. There are important things to be done, like creating pricing regimes and regulation and certainty, and so on. But what&#8217;s really striking about the last five years is how fast financial markets and investors are moving to embrace the need to do something. The language has moved from Kyoto targets to net zero. The automobile industry has divorced the oil industry permanently and irrevocably\u2014that&#8217;s a big thing. There are other examples of that. Trillions of dollars of investment money now are looking for opportunities in green technology and clean energy and moving away from dirty industries. That&#8217;s going to have a bigger impact than anything that comes out of a Canadian ministry\u2014not that we shouldn&#8217;t worry, there&#8217;s lots we can do in that sense. A lot of it may well be about how city governments deal with land use planning, traffic, density, and the solutions involved in housing, and on and on. It is one of the two or three really big issues that this generation of public policy and public administration people are going to have to wrestle with. I would be guardedly optimistic that we can get our act together. The feedback loops of extreme weather and what&#8217;s happening to the cost of insurance of infrastructure and houses, and so on, inevitably are going to push citizens, whether they&#8217;re in a democratic country like ours or an autocratic country like China, to demand more of their leaders. I hope it&#8217;s not too late, but I think the feedback loops will increase the sense of urgency and the feeling that something must be done. If you zoom back the scale, the conservative government of Germany, the conservative government of Japan, and the conservative government of the UK are actually way ahead of Canada in the transition and in green policy. So, it doesn&#8217;t have to be a particularly partisan issue. I think governments, businesses, NGOs, and citizens can come together. I put a lot of faith in the kids, in the Greta Thunbergs and the high school strikes, and I think that is going to be a huge pressure on us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Craig, your public sector leader from MNP, has a question there in the chat room. It&#8217;s really looking at the political parties having increasingly less discussion about direction and real debate about differing viewpoints. Now, how do public officials really look at this change, and in what other forums would public administrators be looking to fill in that debate across the country?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, as I say in my book, it&#8217;s really important who the 338 MPs are, even who the 104 senators are, and certainly who the 30 or 40 people around the cabinet table are\u2014that&#8217;s worth paying attention to. But the space of making decisions around Indigenous issues, climate change, what to do about China, or whatever is very open. You can influence it by being in a think tank, in an industry association, in an NGO, in your local community association, as part of your union\u2014there are so many channels and so much more information available to people to engage than there was 30 years ago. So, I think there are lots of ways to get involved, whether it&#8217;s in the community or in national affairs, and certainly, we should do everything we can to encourage that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think what happens in the sort of political theater is important. At the end of the day, those are the people that get to pass laws, like we saw last week, and to make the improvements. But they are very open software and influenced by everything else that happens in society. I don&#8217;t actually buy this kind of &#8216;well, we&#8217;re more partisan than we ever were.&#8217; I mean, hello, 1993\u2014we had the Reform Party come and storm Ottawa. We had, you know, we&#8217;ve had a large gaggle of Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois MPs whose mission statement is to break up the country, and we&#8217;ve lived with them for 30 years. You know, we&#8217;ve had separatist governments in Quebec. You know, we&#8217;ve had the, you know, energy politics of the 1980s. We&#8217;ve had Danny Williams lowering the flag on the Newfoundland legislature in a fight about an equalization formula, of all things. So, yeah, we&#8217;ve had tensions and divisions, and we&#8217;ve had sharp politics in the past. I&#8217;m not actually convinced that it&#8217;s deeper partisanship than it was. We&#8217;ve had some knock-down, drag-out political fights in the past. We didn&#8217;t have Twitter. For those of us that know how to use Twitter, Jonathan, you&#8217;ve got a really good question, I think, in the chat. It&#8217;s, you know, really with policy as a historical problem-solving device, as opposed to a tool for future success. How do we make positive strides and cultural changes in this area?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think, I&#8217;m just making a smaller point today, which is, you know, this may be a very bad year. It may feel like, you know, 1995 or 2008 or, you know, we&#8217;ve been through bad years before. And I actually have just a much smaller message, which is to persevere and be determined and confident that we will get through to the other side. You know, that&#8217;s the main point. Be open and curious and listening, and get engaged, whether it&#8217;s having a book club at the office or joining, you know, some employee group or getting involved in the community. I think that&#8217;s, you know, how we will keep moving forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Michael, you wrote a book. I&#8217;ve had a chance to read it and go through it. Tell me a little about, you know, the feedback that you&#8217;ve received, the questions you may have, or maybe some interesting things that you noted from it that, you know, many Canadians may have been expecting to hear but found different in what you put into the book. Can you maybe just give us a quick overview on it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sure. I mean, one thing that&#8217;s been very clear in the last few weeks is that, you know, there is a certain percentage of people that really don&#8217;t understand the core software. If they&#8217;re expecting the Governor General to fire the Prime Minister or that they can register a non-confidence petition in the government and end it like this, people invoking their First Amendment rights as if they were in the United States\u2014so, yeah, there&#8217;s work to do on civic education, and that may be, you know, part of the agenda going forward. I wrote the book for undergraduate political science students, so I&#8217;m expecting that, you know, they&#8217;ll have at least a little bit of grounding, you know, before. But Chapter Two is a primer on the basic software and how we are not the United States, and we&#8217;re not the United Kingdom, and we&#8217;re not Australia. We have a very unique Canadian combo here, so maybe Chapter Two is useful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In terms of the actual book, what I wanted to sort of deal with, because I&#8217;m one of a handful of people that could actually tell the story, is cabinet matters. You know, there is a kind of mythology written by professors that cabinet&#8217;s a focus group, that the Prime Minister is all-powerful. People write books suggesting that, you know, cabinet ministers are kind of Star Wars drones who just take orders from the Empire. No, I&#8217;ve been in a lot of cabinet meetings and cabinet committee meetings, and there&#8217;s a lot of vibrant, healthy, and sometimes chippy discussion, you know, from members of the same team. So, cabinet matters, and, you know, being a minister matters. There are only about 300 Canadians walking around today who&#8217;ve ever been a cabinet minister, and only about half of them have been a cabinet minister for more than two years. You have a better chance your kid will get to the NHL than get to cabinet. You know, it&#8217;s a rarefied privilege to be in cabinet because you have the potential to influence conversations and nudge the oral\u2014that clich\u00e9, you know\u2014all kinds of things that happen. So we should be careful, you know, about who we choose to send to Parliament because that&#8217;s the pool we&#8217;re going to draw from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In terms of, you know, I guess the other point I&#8217;m trying to get across is, you know, the Prime Minister of the day, yeah, sure, he or she has\u2014they have a lot of power, there&#8217;s no question about that. But they also have a lot of constraints and considerations and checks and balances, and I try to go through that a little bit. The skills of governing are what I&#8217;m trying to get across. They&#8217;re only very, very loosely related to the skills that win you a party leadership or win you an election. So, you know, a lot of people are good at retail politics and can win a party leadership by appealing to the party\u2014they can even win an election. But governing is a whole different tradecraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Michael, I&#8217;ve got one final question to wrap up before the time. You served for over 38 years serving Canadians in the public sector at the most senior level. If you&#8217;ve got one thing to focus on and fix, what would it be?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Protecting our democracy. I mean, if the core software starts to erode, then everything else is going to be very difficult to deal with. So, future-proofing our democracy\u2014how? Well, it&#8217;s a broad agenda. We probably need an IPAC conference or two or three, but, you know, we start with the easy stuff, and, you know, it&#8217;s a lot of reviews and conversations. I actually think, in some ways, what happened over the last few weeks may have actually created antibodies that will reject some of the more extremist, you know, things that we saw, which is healthy. I think the body politic will respond to that, and there is an opportunity for that partisan parliament to just sit down in committees and task forces and work on it. If you didn&#8217;t like the Emergencies Act, send it to committee and propose how to amend it. You know, if you don&#8217;t like the way that, you know, we dealt with the public health issues, have a Senate committee or parliamentary committee review it, have a federal-provincial conference. Take the software we have\u2014there&#8217;s lots of common ground. If you&#8217;re worried about Vladimir Putin today, well, we have a standing committee on foreign affairs that can work the issue. If you&#8217;re worried about China, we have a standing committee of the House of Commons and one in the Senate. So I think we actually should get our parliamentarians mobilized on the big issues of the day, and they will find they actually have more in common than they have dividing them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Great, thank you very much, Michael, and thank you to everybody who posted questions in the chat room, and congratulations again to IPAC on your 75th anniversary. Enjoy the rest of the conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks, Clayton, and thanks, everybody, for your interest. Thanks. We didn&#8217;t get Michael, unfortunately. I think we had one question there, but I think we are running out of time, so I think we&#8217;re getting moving back into the main room, I believe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yeah, that&#8217;s fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transcript Well, good morning everybody. My name is Clayton Norris. I&#8217;m Vice President, Indigenous Services with MNP. 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