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The Government of Canada is back.

Canada’s public servants will no longer have to “brand” all government communications by using the prime minister’s name, said Treasury Board President Scott Brison.

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Brison said all government communications will return to the traditional use of “Government of Canada,” and won’t refer to the “Trudeau government” as the Conservatives branded departmental new releases and backgrounders with the “Harper government.”

“We are committed to this being the government of Canada,” said Brison in an interview. “We are not going from one leader’s brand to the next leader’s brand in terms of naming of our government. We are the government of Canada and it should always have been the government of Canada.”

Treasury Board is responsible for making and enforcing the rules, including the government’s communications policy and Federal Identity Program.

Many public servants bristled at the previous Conservative government’s various directives on government communication. At first, they were instructed to use “Canada’s New Government” instead of Government of Canada to distinguish it from the previous Liberal regime. That was later changed to “Harper government” on all press releases and backgrounders.