‘New normal’ provides challenge to public sector’s ‘strategic policy review,’ say experts, as feds look to save $6-billion by 2026-27

Economist Don Drummond says that strategic reviews are 'extremely difficult to do and they have to be set up meticulously.'

Treasury Board President Mona Fortier. The government is currently negotiating with 26 out of 28 bargaining tables across the public service, negotiations which are 'happening completely outside of the strategic review process,' according to the government. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY MIKE LAPOINTE

February 13, 2023

As the government is in the midst of a strategic review of its public service following unprecedented growth and record government spending, experts say that such reviews are “extremely difficult to do” and are complicated by the “new normal” brought on by the pandem...

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