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‘Fasten your seatbelts’: Fortier’s quick rise to oversee ‘enormous’ Treasury Board amid historic spending

Treasury Board President Mona Fortier's job will be improving public service recruitment, strengthening oversight on spending and financial reporting in the government's multi-billion-dollar spending estimates, exercising due diligence with costing and approval of federal programs, increasing diversity in federal decision-making positions, and more.

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BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN
November 29, 2021

News | BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN | November 29, 2021

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Public Service Alliance of Canada national president Chris Aylward says the union 'truly hoped we wouldn’t be forced to take strike action, but we’ve exhausted every other avenue to reach a fair contract for Canada’s federal public service workers.'

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