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A government-sponsored working group to examine economic productivity in Canada will be focused entirely on the federal public service, and not the private sector, according to a senior government official. The membership, mandate, and other particulars for the working group have not yet been determined, according to the official, who spoke to on condition that they be attributed on those terms. An Aug.
''The public sector does not operate in a competitive market and therefore we need to be purposeful in generating public sector productivity improvements. This working group intends to engage with unions on this very point.'She said in her statement that the working group would be made up of 'various experts from academia, think tanks, private, and public sectors,' and that it will 'engage with unions.
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