Catherine Luelo GOVERNMENT OF CANADA OTTAWA – Catherine Luelo left the public service because she saw it as too undisciplined to bring government into the digital age. Now she’s taken a job advising Canada’s top bureaucrat how to get it there. When she left as chief information officer last month, she laid out her concerns and advice in a Dec. 28 letter to Privy Council Clerk John Hannaford. She said she had no plans but was open to helping the government however she could. Article content Article content On Friday, she was appointed as a senior official in the Privy Council Office to advise the clerk on digital transformation, technology and managing tech talent. The move is part of a broader deputy minister shakeup. Hannaford has been laser-focused on the future of the public service and whether it is fit for purpose. In her letter, Luelo flagged five issues, which together foster a lagging discipline slowing progress in moving government from the analogue to digital age. “We have a significant level of technical debt that in some cases is decades in the making,” she wrote in the letter. “A significant number of systems are in poor health, and a […]