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Canada’s public service is the most effective in the world, according to the results of a new British study that compares the performance of government workforces in 31 countries.

Canada topped the rankings based on its overall score for performance measures such as tax administration, policy making, inclusiveness, openness, integrity, crisis management, fiscal and financial management.

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New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom, Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Norway, Korea and the U.S. rounded out the top 10 list, which represents the first-ever attempt to compare bureaucracies worldwide.

Among the lowest scoring bureaucracies were those in Slovakia, Hungary, Greece, Czechia, Italy, Portugal and Turkey.

Canada was praised for having a highly-educated government workforce with “a good representation of women, ethnic and religious groups.”

“It’s a good news story, and it’s interesting, when you put that in parallel with the public’s perception of civil servants because, generally, they think we’re a bunch of lazy people,” said Emmanuelle Tremblay, president of the Canadian Association of Professional Employees (CAPE), which represents 13,000 federal economists, policy analysts, research assistants, translators, statisticians and interpreters.