{"id":6978,"date":"2019-01-21T16:03:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T21:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.une-sen.org\/press\/?p=6978"},"modified":"2019-01-21T16:03:22","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T21:03:22","slug":"appointments-by-the-prime-minister-in-the-public-service-the-game-of-musical-chairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/?p=6978","title":{"rendered":"Appointments by the Prime Minister in the Public Service: The Game of Musical Chairs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>UNE National President Kevin King made the following statement:<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"375\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/www.une-sen.org\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Parliament-Image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6981\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Parliament-Image-1.png 375w, https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Parliament-Image-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Parliament-Image-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Parliament-Image-1-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, the Prime Minister appointed former Deputy Minister of Public Services and Procurement (PSPC) Marie Lemay to the Privy Council Office. She was in charge of overlooking the implementation of Phoenix. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bill Matthews is replacing her, effective January 28, 2019. Let\u2019s hope that the new Deputy Minister will be more responsive and proactive regarding the Phoenix fiasco file. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When poorly performing bureaucrats get promoted instead of\ndischarged for incompetence or incapacity, it is beyond the comprehension of\nfederal public servants who perform publicly funded services for the benefit of\nCanadians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNE National President Kevin King made the following statement: Last week, the Prime Minister appointed former Deputy Minister of Public Services and Procurement (PSPC) Marie Lemay to the Privy Council Office. She was in charge of overlooking the implementation of Phoenix. Bill Matthews is replacing her, effective January 28, 2019. Let\u2019s hope that the new &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/?p=6978\" class=\"more-link\">>><span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Appointments by the Prime Minister in the Public Service: The Game of Musical Chairs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6978"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6978"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6982,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6978\/revisions\/6982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}