Ottawa’s spending on staff ballooned during pandemic, likely to continue
Based on the 2023-24 departmental plans, the public service will reach the equivalent of 428,000 full-time employees this fiscal year.Story continues below advertisementThe report says the Canada Revenue Agency, Employment and Social Development Canada and Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada account for two-thirds of that increase.
But the budget watchdog adds that the departments’ current plans don’t include the likely increase in workers that will be needed to carry out new measures announced in the 2023 budget. By the same token, the federal Liberals promised in the budget to cut spending on the public service by three per cent by 2026-27. It is unclear how that will affect staffing.
The report says that as things stand, by 2025-26, the total number of full-time employees in the government is projected to fall to 400,000 — a number that still exceeds pre-pandemic levels. The government was plagued by service delays during the pandemic, prompting additional hiring to ease backlogs.
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