Public servants should not be independent and unaccountable decision makers
that public servants have a duty of professional loyalty, not to the government or the minister they serve, but to the public interest. He argued that their duty is owed to “the state” and not to its temporary governors.
With the approval of Parliament, ministers are held accountable for their decisions by democratically elected members of the House of Commons. That’s our system of government, the one we inherited from the British, and it works well. The notion that every public servant has a duty to exercise his or her judgment on how best to serve the public interest violates the most fundamental principles of responsible government because it would make every public servant an independent and unaccountable decision maker.
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