The Trudeau government’s hiring sprees need to end
The figure shocked people inside and outside the Senate, because it represented a 70-per-cent increase over the budget in fiscal 2015-16, the year the Trudeau Liberals came to power.
The Senate’s leader of the opposition, Don Plett, has questioned the value for money Canadians are getting from a chamber that hasn’t had a full complement of members since 2018. The Senate is currently 12 members short of its 105 total; at one point last year, it was down 17. The Senate had the equivalent of 372 full-time employees in 2017. Today it has 493, a 32.5-per-cent jump over a period during much of which, as has already been noted, the chamber has had at least a dozen vacancies.
The trend has been broad-based and can’t be pinned on extraordinary circumstances. Out of 58 federal departments and agencies in the core civil service, 53 increased their employee count between 2015 and 2021. The Trudeau government’s taste for hiring consultants is at odds with its 2015 election promise to cut back on outsourcing. And it makes the civil service hiring spree yet more problematic: Why take on so many new employees while also being increasingly reliant on expensive outside experts?
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