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Introduction: Democratic Government, Merit and the Public Service Commission of Canada -- Chapter 1 The Origins of the Public Service Commission: 1867-1918 -- Chapter 2 Creating a Merit System: 1918-1944 -- Chapter 3 Rethinking the CSC: Gordon, Heeney and Glassco: 1945-1967 -- Chapter 4 The Management Assault on the Public Service Commission: 1967-1979 -- Chapter 5 Struggling to Defend Political Neutrality: 1979-2006 -- Chapter 6 The PSC as a Cautious Reformer: Staffing Reforms during the Mulroney Years: 1984-1993 -- Chapter 7 Merit as the Essential Mandate: Repositioning the PSC: 1993-2008 -- Conclusion

In 1908, after decades of struggling with a public administration undermined by systemic patronage, the Canadian parliament decided that public servants would be selected on the basis of merit, through a system administered by an independent agency: the Public Service Commission of Canada. This history, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Commission, recounts its unique contribution to the development of an independent public service, which has become a pillar of Canadian parliamentary democracy.