Attrition is the 'worst way' to shrink federal public service, says former clerk

[Castanet News]

Canada's federal public service grew by more than 100,000 people over the past 10 years, and both the Liberals and Conservatives are looking to trim it by...

[Lumby Glen]

Why not just keep it simple. Let's have a review followed by a 15 % cut and a hiring freeze. There are entire departments that likely have little useful work.

[okgrower]

Why not just keep it simple. Let's have a review followed by a 15 % cut and a hiring freeze. There are entire departments that likely have little useful work.

His point is a hiring freeze isnt a good way of doing it. Cut all the dead wood and still hire the right people where needed to make it more efficient

And 15% isnt enough - the public service has grown about 40% under Justin.

[wellcoboy]

just do like MR.TRUMP did ...your fired !!

[mrcement]

Just fire 50,000 CRA workers. We don't need 100,000 CRA workers to steal our income taxed money.

[SAILINGONE]

Great there is one liberal insider from the PMO who has a strong recommendation.
Better yet the big reset to 2015 numbers and then some.
We will need paycheck earning workers to built the "utility corridor" with Powerlines to have utility grade electricity security, Pipelines to ship energy east for energy security, build infrastructure, process facilities and manufacturing to add value to our raw resource, to be sold here at home and abroad.
Nor sure if all these woke, dei, sogi and climate alarmist brainwashed taxpayers funded payroll position holders can be transitioned and retrained in real value added wealth producing and nation building jobs, but with a bit of traditional Canadian motivation and the pressures of being a real blue collar middleclass working Canadian making an honest paycheck for an good living, will help. Unions membership not needed,

lets fill jobs with the most qualified, education is not the only consideration, experience, skills, work ethic, working attitude, critical thinking, drive of figure out how to get things done rather then figuring out how not the get things done are very strong considerations. So I agree with the former clerk .

[swoop975]

Well, if you can't take the word of a guy who tried to help the current (outgoing) PM to influence the attorney-general of Canada, who can you trust?

[Matt_Baker]

Start with Parks Canada, Environment Canada, and CRA.

[JPO]

"The government reports there were 367,772 public servants in 2024, up from 257,034 in 2015."

Pretty significant increase over 9 years, 110,000, 10,000+ per year.. Do you think maybe some of those agencies might be able to double up on some of the jobs within their departments? We do need people to run the departments. Just how we allocate responsibilities might be worth considering.