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Public Governance International

To prepare public organizations and public sector leaders for the challenges of serving in the 21st century.


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Three New Publications
 Public Governance International has released three new publications. Two recent speeches by Public Governance International President Jocelyne Bourgon, building on ideas from the Manion Lecture and beyond, have been added to her page. One, for the Canada School of Public Service, is in English; the other, for l’Institut d’administration publique du Québec, is in French. As well, a new paper taking a look at how well Canada’s public service is doing has been added to the Sharing the Learning publication list.


Manion Lecture 2025: Serving Canada in 2025 (Updated 18 June 2025)
 On May 5th, Jocelyne Bourgon, Clerk of the Privy Council from 1994-1999, President Emeritus of the Canada School of Public Service, and President of Public Governance International (PGI), delivered the 2025 Manion Lecture, Serving Canada in 2025. The Canada School of Public Service’s flagship annual lecture, the Manion Lecture honours the late John Lawrence Manion, first principal of the CSPS’s precursor Canadian Centre for Management Development.

Bourgon’s keynote explored the challenges Canada faces at the start of the second quarter of the 21st century, and some of the lessons public service leaders can learn from history to invent a different way through an unprecedented period of change.

The speech has been adapted into an extended text, available on the PGI website. As well, attendee Kathryn May summarized the lecture for Policy Options. This has shaped discussion abroad, such as a recent piece by Caron Beaton-Wells in Australia's The Mandarin. For more on the Manion Lecture, see the Canada School of Public Service website.

Update, 18 June 2025: The full Manion Lecture is now available to watch on the CSPS website.


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Modernizing Public Governance in Theory and Practice:

Serving and governing are more challenging than ever. Public sector leaders are facing:

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New Public Governance: Different ideas for a different time

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PGI President: The Honourable Jocelyne Bourgon P.C., O.C.

Madame Jocelyne Bourgon is the founding President of Public Governance International (PGI), the leader of the New Synthesis initiative, an international effort aimed at modernizing public governance, and the President Emerita of the Canada School of Public Service.

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Reflecting on the National Public Service Week of Canada, PGI has dug deep into our archives to share the first-ever digital Annual Report to the Prime Minister on the Public Service of Canada. The Sixth Annual Report was Madame Bourgon’s final report to the Prime Minister of Canada as she was preparing to move on from her role as the first female Clerk of the Privy Council. Her final report is reflective of her esteemed tenure as Clerk, one that continuously pushed boundaries and guided the Public Service of Canada through an unprecedented period of change to prepare for the challenges of the 21st century.