Public service job cuts will be ‘compassionate’ and ‘civilized,’ with the impact on people ‘fairly minimal,’ say local Liberal MPs

Unions representing federal public servants are urging members to talk to their MPs about the impact of the thousands of job losses laid out in the Nov. 4 budget.

'We have big things to accomplish in the country, we're going to be relying on an effective public service,' Government House Leader Steven MacKinnon said after the budget laid out thousands of job losses coming for federal bureaucrats.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY MARLO GLASS

November 5, 2025

A Liberal MP who represents part of the National Capital Region says pending job cuts to the federal public service will be done in a “respectful and compassionate way” after the budget laid out billions of dollars in spending cuts and thousands of job losses in the comi...

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