Are across-the-board public service job cuts the right call?

Perhaps more than ever, we need our public servants, particularly those who deal with the rest of the world, to be doing their best to work with this new situation.

Prime Minister Mark Carney is looking at ways to overhaul the federal public service, but he should also consider the state of employee morale at Global Affairs Canada, and Canada Security and Intelligence Service, writes Jake Cole.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY JAKE COLE

February 19, 2026

The ongoing rollout of widespread public service employee cuts across multiple departments and agencies are bound worry those affected, and especially people who depend on the income from their jobs.

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