The death of expertise-based civil service

[Upper Canada Tory]

Universities, which you described as the heart of the system, have largely turned into inefficient and outdated bureaucracies that recieve absurdly high amounts of taxpayer dollars to churn out degrees of dubious quality or value for large sums of money, usually for the purpose of preserving a societal elite (which I imagine you see as synonymous with the civil service).

As others have mentioned, a civil service that values expertise over serving the public is constantly at risk of abusing its power and encroaching on democracy by making laws instead of democratically elected lawmakers.

I think ideally, an expertise-based civil service is good, but it needs to be held accountable by elected officials. The university system desperately needs to be fixed in order to provide degrees that there is actually a need for rather than wasting taxpayer money in order to preserve existing inequality under the guise of protecting the civil service.