Halfway through the public service workforce reduction, program officers and clerks at CRA and ESDC face the axe, security-related departments are growing, and executives are largely spared
The departments and agencies and the employment categories that were involved in the pandemic response are the ones with the greatest reductions. Growth is occurring in defence and security, and, at least to this point, executives have seen smaller reductions than many front-line employees. Finding the next 15,500 jobs to cut will be harder.
The government is about halfway through its effort to reduce the federal public service from a high of 368,000 positions in 2024 to its target of 330,000 by 2028-29. According to the
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