Proposed changes to Civil Service Act raise job security questions

NDP Leader Claudia Chender told reporters last week that the public service is supposed to be non-partisan.

She said the letters from Houston and Taweel, along with the contents of Bill 1, put that at risk. Bill 1 also formally dissolves Communications Nova Scotia, the government entity required by legislation to produce non-partisan communication materials for the public.

Government communications will now fall to the executive council office, which supports the premier and cabinet.

"If they aren't seen as solving the problem in the way the government wants it solved, which we've already seen this session is not always the best way — they walk it back all the time — well, then they might get stretched right out of government," Chender told reporters.

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