Public service employment has grown by 31 per cent

[RangerRay]

Without even the courtesy of an interview though, right?

Interview? That’s crazy talk! They just swing the axe wildly with no rhyme or reason.

 

[Kirkhill]

The only way to effectively shrink the PS is to close (consolidate) entire programmes - something that is very, very hard to do because every single one has a "cheering section" of voters - and let attrition do its thing.

A good, effective public service needs constant renewal AND it needs good, experienced senior management; hence "natural" attrition.

One way to force some useful attrition is to get rid of some minor portfolios and make several serving ministers into associate (junior) ministers in other departments and then reduce the number of DMs, Assoc DMs and ADMs with their attendant (and generally late large) bands of acolytes.

Amalgamate in the name of efficiency.

Nothing is removed it is simply buried.

 

[Good2Golf]

Recent reports in the media show that CBSA is short between 1800 and 3000 front line officers that were cut during the Harper years and never replaced under Trudeau. Automation projects, such as the PIK machines at airports, have not reduced the human workforce need and some have actually made it worse and slowed traveler processing (cough, cough "ArriveCan"). Their workload has grown exponentially and looks to increase even more thanks to President-elect Trump putting long-overdue pressure on the Liberal government to take border security seriously. I don't see that pressure being relaxed for a CPC government at all.

And yet CRA, growing larger than the effective *stained trained strength of the CAF regular force, from 40,000 in 2015 to over 59,000 in 2024, “can’t find” where Employment and Social Development Canada gave out $15B of CERB overpayments…

Population of the federal public service by department or agency - Canada.ca

This data table shows the number of employees for each government department, each separate agency (excluding Crown Corporations), and the number of ministers' exempt staff, for each year from 2005 to the present.

www.canada.ca

 

[QV]

Interesting numbers... CRA is a big outlier as GTG states... I thought DND would have had more growth. But today they are close to their 2010 number.

Immigration/Refugee tripled.... RCMP Civ almost doubled... PSPC grew by almost 50%...Immigration Board almost doubled....Employment & Social development went from 26k to 39k....

Plenty of room to make cuts without hindering defence. Streamlining the income tax regulations could probably reduce the CRA number by 2/3. Fixing procurement could bring that number down.

27,291

27,394

27,177

24,939

23,146

22,611

22,954

23,178

24,024

25,278

26,047

26,422

26,399

27,356

28,740

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National Defence​

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[Remius]

Interesting numbers... CRA is a big outlier as GTG states... I thought DND would have had more growth. But today they are close to their 2010 number.

CRA relies heavily on terms so a lot of that can easily be cut.

Immigration/Refugee tripled.... RCMP Civ almost doubled... PSPC grew by almost 50%...Immigration Board almost doubled....Employment & Social development went from 26k to 39k....

RCMP numbers will look weird when factoring the reduction of civilian members and replacing them with public servants. So not really doubled but certainly increased with certain emerging sectors like cyber.

Plenty of room to make cuts without hindering defence. Streamlining the income tax regulations could probably reduce the CRA number by 2/3. Fixing procurement could bring that number down.

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Assuming they get it right. I’m pretty sure they won’t.

 

[daftandbarmy]

Amalgamate in the name of efficiency.

Nothing is removed it is simply buried.

Just remember, the Boss has the hardest time of all

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[Kirkhill]

Just remember, the Boss has the hardest time of all

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Danish system worked well. Promote a new boss. Have him wield the axe. Then fire the executioner.