‘Don’t go in with a sledgehammer’: public service caps or cuts should be rational, targeted, says Savoie

Public sector reform should look closer to Jean Chrétien’s Program Review than Donald Trump’s mass layoffs, says Université de Moncton professor Donald Savoie.
Mark Carney
Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney has promised an initial cap on federal public servants.

As Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and some Liberal leadership candidates pledge to reduce federal government spending after the next election, a leading scholar on Canadian governance is urging politicians to avoid following the arbitrary and haphazard slashing underwa...

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