Why do you care ? How does he affect you ? Do you still have a job ? Will you have that job tomorrow?
Canada needs a D.O.G.E.
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So they should. This borrowing money to buy votes today will have to be repaid by my grandkids. That is just not right.
No . Government should serve the voters interests , not the bureaucracies .
With out-of-control spending, it's time for Canadian DOGE
Author of the article:Brian Lilley
Published May 30, 2025 • 3 minute read
On Friday, Elon Musk held a news conference with Donald Trump in the Oval Office to mark his last day heading up DOGE. I wonder if we could convince Musk to come north to establish the Canadian Department of Government Efficiency. It’s clear we need it.
A report from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation shows that last year, the federal government had 98,986 more employees than they did when the Trudeau Liberals took over in 2016. It represents a 38% increase in the number of bureaucrats employed by the feds at a time when the population increased by less than 15% over the same eight years.
The departments and agencies with the biggest growth were Infrastructure Canada up by 375%, Women and Gender Equality Canada 334%, RCMP External Review Committee 229%, Elections Canada 173%, and Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada 158%. I really doubt that the level of service at a place like the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada has increased by 158%, though there is no doubt that their workload is up given massive numbers of people coming into the country and declaring asylum including tens of thousands of foreign students.
Franco Terrazzano, federal director of the CTF, said that it’s not just the growth in the number of people but the cost. He cited a report from the Parliamentary Budget Officer showing that once pay, benefits and perks are tallied up, the average federal bureaucrat cost taxpayers $125,300 per year.
Despite the massive increase since 2016, the number of people on the federal payroll fell by 9,807 people last year. Terrazzano said on Friday that while that while this 2.7% decrease is welcome, it doesn’t go far enough given the massive increase under Trudeau.
He points out that the Carney Liberals promised to keep the size of the bureaucracy as it is.
“Prime Minister Mark Carney’s promise to cap the bureaucracy doesn’t go nearly far enough and just entrenches the Trudeau government’s costly bureaucrat hiring spree,” Terrazzano said. “Taxpayers need politicians to cut the bloated bureaucracy and make pay and perks more affordable.”
It’s not just the size of the bureaucracy, it’s the out-of-control spending that began under the Trudeau Liberals and continues under the Carney Liberals. On Thursday, in the House of Commons, Carney promised to “spend less on government operations.”
“Day-to-day government spending, the government’s operating budget, has been growing by an unsustainable 9% every year. We will bring that rate down to 2%, less than half the average nominal rate of growth in the economy,” he said.
The trouble is, as the Conservatives were quick to point out, the Main Estimates, the official government spending plan and what needs to be passed to authorize spending, show spending going up, not down.
“The first spending bill that he dropped in the House of Commons spends 8% more than Trudeau did in his last year in office. That is almost three times bigger than population and inflation combined,” said Conservative Deputy Leader Melissa Lantsman.
Carney is likely soon to find out that wrestling spending down, like wrestling down the size of the bureaucracy, is a tougher task than it looks.
The Trudeau government increased the size of the bureaucracy by 38% and they increased spending between 2016 and 2024 by 75%. Inflation over that time was 25%, population growth was 15%, which shows that on both fronts the Trudeau Liberals had no control of the public purse which is why establishing a DOGE like organization in Ottawa.
Canada’s media establishment would likely laugh at the idea of a Canadian DOGE, but anyone who has been around government knows that it is always worthwhile examining spending. Just because a program was established 20 years ago doesn’t mean it is needed now, or that because spending has always happened that it needs to continue.
After nearly a decade of Trudeau’s out-of-control spending, Carney should consider Musk’s chainsaw like approach.
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Author of the article:Brian Lilley
Published May 30, 2025 • 3 minute read
On Friday, Elon Musk held a news conference with Donald Trump in the Oval Office to mark his last day heading up DOGE. I wonder if we could convince Musk to come north to establish the Canadian Department of Government Efficiency. It’s clear we need it.
A report from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation shows that last year, the federal government had 98,986 more employees than they did when the Trudeau Liberals took over in 2016. It represents a 38% increase in the number of bureaucrats employed by the feds at a time when the population increased by less than 15% over the same eight years.
The departments and agencies with the biggest growth were Infrastructure Canada up by 375%, Women and Gender Equality Canada 334%, RCMP External Review Committee 229%, Elections Canada 173%, and Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada 158%. I really doubt that the level of service at a place like the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada has increased by 158%, though there is no doubt that their workload is up given massive numbers of people coming into the country and declaring asylum including tens of thousands of foreign students.
Franco Terrazzano, federal director of the CTF, said that it’s not just the growth in the number of people but the cost. He cited a report from the Parliamentary Budget Officer showing that once pay, benefits and perks are tallied up, the average federal bureaucrat cost taxpayers $125,300 per year.
Despite the massive increase since 2016, the number of people on the federal payroll fell by 9,807 people last year. Terrazzano said on Friday that while that while this 2.7% decrease is welcome, it doesn’t go far enough given the massive increase under Trudeau.
He points out that the Carney Liberals promised to keep the size of the bureaucracy as it is.
“Prime Minister Mark Carney’s promise to cap the bureaucracy doesn’t go nearly far enough and just entrenches the Trudeau government’s costly bureaucrat hiring spree,” Terrazzano said. “Taxpayers need politicians to cut the bloated bureaucracy and make pay and perks more affordable.”
It’s not just the size of the bureaucracy, it’s the out-of-control spending that began under the Trudeau Liberals and continues under the Carney Liberals. On Thursday, in the House of Commons, Carney promised to “spend less on government operations.”
“Day-to-day government spending, the government’s operating budget, has been growing by an unsustainable 9% every year. We will bring that rate down to 2%, less than half the average nominal rate of growth in the economy,” he said.
The trouble is, as the Conservatives were quick to point out, the Main Estimates, the official government spending plan and what needs to be passed to authorize spending, show spending going up, not down.
“The first spending bill that he dropped in the House of Commons spends 8% more than Trudeau did in his last year in office. That is almost three times bigger than population and inflation combined,” said Conservative Deputy Leader Melissa Lantsman.
Carney is likely soon to find out that wrestling spending down, like wrestling down the size of the bureaucracy, is a tougher task than it looks.
The Trudeau government increased the size of the bureaucracy by 38% and they increased spending between 2016 and 2024 by 75%. Inflation over that time was 25%, population growth was 15%, which shows that on both fronts the Trudeau Liberals had no control of the public purse which is why establishing a DOGE like organization in Ottawa.
Canada’s media establishment would likely laugh at the idea of a Canadian DOGE, but anyone who has been around government knows that it is always worthwhile examining spending. Just because a program was established 20 years ago doesn’t mean it is needed now, or that because spending has always happened that it needs to continue.
After nearly a decade of Trudeau’s out-of-control spending, Carney should consider Musk’s chainsaw like approach.
LILLEY: With out-of-control spending, it's time for Canadian DOGE
Mark Carney is likely soon to find out that wrestling spending down is a tougher task than it looks.