Report finds ‘unprecedented expansion’ of the public service under Trudeau as ratio of public servants to population has increased by 25.3 per cent

A new report from the Montreal Economic Institute has found that 'the rate of growth in the federal workforce was already high in 2019 and this has been sustained right through 2023 at a pace unmatched at any point in the preceding forty years.'

Former prime ministers Brian Mulroney, left, Jean Chrétien, Paul Martin, Stephen Harper, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. According to a new report, 'we are witnessing a truly unprecedented expansion in the size of the civil service' under Canada's current leader. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

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BY MIKE LAPOINTE

February 6, 2024

A new report from the Montreal Economic Institute, a think-tank promoting fiscal conservatism and smaller government, analyzed hiring patterns in the federal public service over the last five prime ministers and found that although there have been fluctuations in the size of...

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