Huh…& nine years into his term, with the Civil Service expanded what? 40+%-ish? To the point where there just isn’t the office space to have them even show up to work? Now what?
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The federal government has been looking for ways to tighten its budget and curb the size of the public service, which has swelled in recent years.
Really? It has?
While the Liberal government has said it would do so through attrition and hiring freezes, cutting the jobs of permanent government employees “
wasn’t” on the table….but…
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…But Canada’s biggest public sector union, the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC), says that no longer seems to be the case. Maybe budgets don’t balance themselves.
During a meeting on Thursday between Treasury Board officials and PSAC, the union said it was told the government will be
“widening the net” to reduce its spending, looking to cut term and casual employees and “opening the door for departments to slash permanent employees” through layoffs.
The union said the Liberal government has assigned budget reduction targets “in salary line items” to federal departments. But it has not released those targets, claiming they were protected under Cabinet privilege and would only be made public in June 2025.
June 2025? Why June 2025? Jagmeet gets ‘his’ pension in February 2025 & the election can’t happen any later than October 20th 2025….or October 27th if the Liberals & NDP really wanna give the taxpayers one last hard thrust before they pull out? So why June 2025?
("The Liberal party's prospects are not that great. So, there's a high likelihood that many, if not all of these cabinet ministers could lose their seats if the polls hold until the next election," said Abacus Data's David Coletto)
Silas said the idea of cutting casual and term positions “is bad enough,” but the idea of cutting permanent positions is “shameful.” He said there was a lack of detail in the government’s presentation about the potential cuts, but that departments and agencies were coming up with their own plans and were “encouraged” to consult with unions, etc….
How many of these positions existed before Trudeau inflated the public sector by 40+%ish? Even factoring in an increase based upon a %’age of the population increase due to rampant uncontrolled immigration? Asking for a friend.
According to the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, the size of the public service in 2024 is 367,772—up from 300,450 in 2020….&
up from what in 2015?
In April, the federal government announced it would seek to cut the size of the public service by 5,000 full-time positions
primarily through natural attrition over the course of four years (with the last three of them with the Liberals as the opposition), & maybe not even the official opposition, as part of an effort to save $15.8 billion over five years and reallocate it elsewhere?
In February, Treasury Board President Anita Anand told the Ottawa Citizen that there should be little impact to public-service jobs as part of the spending review, though some departments may undergo workforce changes because of redeployment to higher-priority activities or attrition.
Anita Anand is the Treasury Board President? I thought she was foreign affairs (before Joly got that) or Head of the Ministry of National Defence (before Bill Blair got that)? I think I’m a couple of musical chairs cabinet shuffles behind….
“That is not the goal of this exercise,” Anand said at the time, adding that decisions would lie with deputy ministers of each ministry before they’re shuffled again next and that government was somewhat “circumscribed by what statutes mandate.”
The minister was not available for an interview on Friday…
’cuz nobody is sure who it is at this point since that last Shuffle? When’s the next one?
A government source who was not authorized to speak on the matter (= the officially unofficially sanctioned announcement to test the waters) said there seems to be a different approach within federal departments and agencies on where to find budget reductions???
The Public Service Alliance of Canada says the government is "opening the door for departments to slash permanent employees."
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Federal cabinet ministers Filomena Tassi, Carla Qualtrough, and Dan Vandal announced Thursday they will not run for re-election.
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Senior government sources tell CTV News at least one other – Marie-Claude Bibeau – doesn't plan to run again, setting the stage for Justin Trudeau to shuffle his cabinet in the coming weeks.
Anticipating a larger rearrangement of the Liberal front bench this fall, two weeks ago CTV News surveyed all cabinet ministers about their plans for the next federal election.
Every office responded saying that their minister intended to run again – including Tassi, Qualtrough, and Vandal's offices, but that’s sooo two weeks ago.
Federal cabinet ministers Filomena Tassi, Carla Qualtrough and Dan Vandal announced Thursday they will not run for re-election. Senior government sources tell CTV News at least one other, Marie-Claude Bibeau, doesn't plan to run again, setting the stage for Justin Trudeau to shuffle his cabinet...
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P.S. Anita Anand is the Minister of Transportation this week, since September of 2024, so for the last month or two now, so far…
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