Randall Denley: A lack of data to assess the efficiency of government services is a problem for taxpayers, but it’s ideal for those in government.

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The federal government’s limp response to measuring public service productivity — that they’re simply not going to do it — is deflating for those who imagined that Prime Minister Mark Carney would act like a noted economist.

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Instead, Mark Carney, the politician, has chosen to ignore his own government’s expert task force’s recommendation to collect data that would measure productivity across the public sector. By that one act, Carney undermined his own credibility as a rational business leader and made a farce of the debate over whether