Prior to Trudeau and the Liberals coming to power, every other Canadian prime minister going back to Brian Mulroney, elected in 1984, decreased the number of civil servants per 1,000 population during their time in office, the MEI said.
Mulroney lowered it by 10.2%, Jean Chretien by 9.7%, Stephen Harper by 6.3% and Paul Martin by 1.0% until the Trudeau government increased it by 25.3%, according to the study.
“Since the Trudeau government came to power, there has been an unprecedented expansion in the size of the bureaucracy,” said study author Gabriel Giguere, public policy analyst at the MEI.
While part of the increase in the size of the public service was due to the pandemic, the MEI study said, “it is not the primary factor explaining the increase in the number of federal employees.
“The growth in the federal workforce under the Trudeau government has broken with the restraint that characterized governments of the previous 40 years.”
On Wednesday, Trudeau rejected criticism from the Business Council of Canada that his government needs to cut spending by $12 billion annually, or $50 billion over four years, to meet its own fiscal target of keeping federal deficits below 1% of GDP, starting in 2026-27.
Trudeau said he’s focused on supporting Canadians in tough economic times and growing the economy, which won’t be achieved by “austerity and cuts” advocated by business groups and the Conservatives?
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Mulroney lowered it by 10.2%, Jean Chretien by 9.7%, Stephen Harper by 6.3% and Paul Martin by 1.0% until the Trudeau government increased it by 25.3%, according to the study.
“Since the Trudeau government came to power, there has been an unprecedented expansion in the size of the bureaucracy,” said study author Gabriel Giguere, public policy analyst at the MEI.
While part of the increase in the size of the public service was due to the pandemic, the MEI study said, “it is not the primary factor explaining the increase in the number of federal employees.
“The growth in the federal workforce under the Trudeau government has broken with the restraint that characterized governments of the previous 40 years.”
On Wednesday, Trudeau rejected criticism from the Business Council of Canada that his government needs to cut spending by $12 billion annually, or $50 billion over four years, to meet its own fiscal target of keeping federal deficits below 1% of GDP, starting in 2026-27.
Trudeau said he’s focused on supporting Canadians in tough economic times and growing the economy, which won’t be achieved by “austerity and cuts” advocated by business groups and the Conservatives?
GOLDSTEIN: Size, cost of civil service out of control under Trudeau government, report finds — Toronto Sun
The Trudeau government has increased the size of the federal public service by 37.9%, or almost 100,000 additional employees, since coming to power in 2015, according to a new study by the Montreal Economic Institute. As of March 31, 2023, the total number of federal employees reached 357,247...
