Canada

Canada is ranked 3rd overall on the Index and is ranked top for HR management and inclusiveness.

Summary chart of Canada's scores in the 2019 InCiSE index. GBR NZL FIN AUS DNK NOR NLD SWE KOR USA EST CHE IRL AUT FRA ESP BEL DEU LTU MEX CHL LVA JPN ITA SVN ISR POL ISL CZE PRT TUR SVK HRV BGR ROU GRC HUN CAN InCiSE 0.94 0.52 Capabilities Crisis and risk management Digital services Fiscal and financial management HR management Inclusiveness Integrity Openness Policy making Procurement Regulation Tax administration

Canada’s top position for HR management and inclusiveness suggests that it has many lessons to share with other countries concerning recruiting, attracting and managing talent, as well as promoting gender and ethnic representation issues in the civil service.

Canada is ranked 2nd for integrity. It achieves very high scores for most attributes, appearing in the top 5 for all but the openness indicator where it is ranked 8th. This is mainly because of relatively lower scores for the right to information theme.

Canada’s scores for policy making are very high as well (ranked 4th), most notably for the metrics assessing the quality of policy advice and policy monitoring. It is also ranked 4th for regulation.

The main indicator where Canada’s performance is less strong compared with other countries is crisis and risk management where its overall score is at the InCiSE average.

Cross-referencing note

This content was presented as section 4.5 in the original 2019 publication.