Trudeau government increased federal employees 40% since election in 2015 cdnpoli
The federal public service, now at 357,247 employees, is nearly 40 per cent larger than it was in 2015, when the Liberals took power, when it counted“Was there a bureaucrat shortage in Ottawa before Trudeau took over?” said Franco Terrazzano of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
“Canadians need a more efficient government, not a bloated government full of highly paid bureaucrats.”A reportrevealed operational spending for the public service grew steadily since the 2019-20 fiscal year from $87.5 billion to $115.9 billion in 2021–22 — a 32-per-cent increase. Just over half of that spending was directly related to personnel, which increase from $46.3 billion to $60.7 billion over the same time period.
The same report states the public service’s growth over the past two years wasn’t uniform, with departments such as Employment and Social Development, Canada’s public health agency and the Canada Revenue Agency seeing sharp increases in full-time positions as a result of the pandemic.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary Herald, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
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