TTAWA — Slammed by federal budget cuts, Environment Canada was urged to boost morale last fall by getting employees to write essays about the future of their department, says newly released internal correspondence.

But the proposal from a committee organizing the department’s 40th anniversary celebrations in 2011 didn’t get very far before it was cancelled.

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