Fixing feds’ fiscal plumbing takes more than tinkering  

HR teams have grown into sprawling bureaucracies, often mirrored by similar functions hidden within other branches. These duplications add cost, complexity, and confusion.
François-Philippe Champagne
Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne has launched pre-budget consultations. The government’s expenditure management is invisible by design, which even parliamentarians struggle to understand, writes Ram Mathilakath.

Canadians don’t really care about how the federal government budgets are put together, let alone how money flows through departments or how many public servants it takes to hire a new bureaucrat. That’s understandable. The government’s expenditure management—the “f...

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