And the population grew by about 6 million in that time frame. Congratulations!
vancity31240 on
No wonder all the provincial and federal governments have huge deficits. Cuts need to come and they needed to come a long time ago.
BlueFlob on
The article lacks substance.
I do agree that some sectors have grown significantly with managerial tasks instead of productive tasks and we should optimize them.
Education and healthcare are plagued with management and bureaucracy. Focus on front-line services, decentralize and trim down.
CRA could probably be further optimized with the right people and tools.
Humble-Post-7672 on
When the biggest and best employer is the government the economy is guaranteed to fail.
PizzaExisting9878 on
So 100,000 a year. How many low skill people entered our once great country each year?
Pitiful excuse for a “government”
studebaker103 on
More government workers is a great way to ensure more people vote in favour of a big government.
redpandafire on
Technically government service jobs do not create economic productivity as there is no product. Combine with speculation on houses, then productivity in free fall becomes a very clear picture.
ProudVancouverLL on
I’m personally still waiting for justice for the ArriveCan scandal.
NewAdventureTomorrow on
One of the biggest unspoken issues is the amount of university degree programs where the majority of career paths are only within government and for which the career is largely managerial/paper-pushing.
You already see this playing out with university graduates being unable to find work because the there is only so many government jobs to go around and because governments have started doing hiring freezes or small layoffs.
Classic-Perspective5 on
Well we’ve added like ten million adults to the country in that time
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BarNecessary6506 on
How many did it lose?
TheGriffin on
And? Almost like there was an expansion of services warrenting people being needed to do those jobs
ResistiveBeaver on
Over 5 million in population growth, a bit under 1 million growth in public sector jobs, broadly defined (probably including health care workers, educators, police etc. and all levels of government).
That seems… fine? I don’t get the outrage.
Thwackitywhack on
Too bad Public Sector jobs don’t bring in ‚NEW‘ revenue.
Gimmetheloo on
How
alwaysrent on
hmm. interesting that during the same time canada has been doing worse in almost all aspects of life and the economy 🤔 among the g7. its almost as if more workers doesn’t equal a better economy or the workers they are employing are complete trash. all this does is make the the governments failure that much worse. smh
satanisoverseas on
When massive % of them are part-time jobs to avoid paid vacation and benefits, it is alarming
Abyssus88 on
And how many did we loose……………….
JohnDorian0506 on
And each year that we do this right now, it’s costing us $20 billion. If we go for the whole decade, it’ll cost us about $80 billion to $90 billion — that’s if we just hold the line and don’t have any layoffs.
**ANDREW:** As you know, the federal budget in 2025 had what some are calling an employment bombshell. The government said it plans to cut thousands of public sector jobs, but that’s by 2029, right?
**JASON:** Yeah, and the thousands they’re talking about cutting doesn’t come close to the number we need to cut by. If we go by the 2015 ratio of public administration to private sector employment, we’ve got about 180,000 extra over that ratio. So even 20,000 out of the federal civil service is not going to be enough.
MethodicallyRight on
Please correct me if I’m wrong but a) I personally believe the majority of people who read the headline assume the growth happened at the Federal level and treat it as a damning indictment of the Liberals. b) Quickly looking into it, the numbers I’m seeing up front are pointing to about 110k Federal jobs created with ~950k total Government job growth…. So 840k of those jobs weren’t at the Federal level.
ifuaguyugetsauced on
Government bloat is a drain for our society. When government services are getting worse and the gov is hiring more with no better results we need to take a step back and realize what we’re doing
EP40glazer on
Then we need to remove 1,000,000 jobs.
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And the population grew by about 6 million in that time frame. Congratulations!
No wonder all the provincial and federal governments have huge deficits. Cuts need to come and they needed to come a long time ago.
The article lacks substance.
I do agree that some sectors have grown significantly with managerial tasks instead of productive tasks and we should optimize them.
Education and healthcare are plagued with management and bureaucracy. Focus on front-line services, decentralize and trim down.
CRA could probably be further optimized with the right people and tools.
When the biggest and best employer is the government the economy is guaranteed to fail.
So 100,000 a year. How many low skill people entered our once great country each year?
Pitiful excuse for a “government”
More government workers is a great way to ensure more people vote in favour of a big government.
Technically government service jobs do not create economic productivity as there is no product. Combine with speculation on houses, then productivity in free fall becomes a very clear picture.
I’m personally still waiting for justice for the ArriveCan scandal.
One of the biggest unspoken issues is the amount of university degree programs where the majority of career paths are only within government and for which the career is largely managerial/paper-pushing.
You already see this playing out with university graduates being unable to find work because the there is only so many government jobs to go around and because governments have started doing hiring freezes or small layoffs.
Well we’ve added like ten million adults to the country in that time
[deleted]
How many did it lose?
And? Almost like there was an expansion of services warrenting people being needed to do those jobs
Over 5 million in population growth, a bit under 1 million growth in public sector jobs, broadly defined (probably including health care workers, educators, police etc. and all levels of government).
That seems… fine? I don’t get the outrage.
Too bad Public Sector jobs don’t bring in ‚NEW‘ revenue.
How
hmm. interesting that during the same time canada has been doing worse in almost all aspects of life and the economy 🤔 among the g7. its almost as if more workers doesn’t equal a better economy or the workers they are employing are complete trash. all this does is make the the governments failure that much worse. smh
When massive % of them are part-time jobs to avoid paid vacation and benefits, it is alarming
And how many did we loose……………….
And each year that we do this right now, it’s costing us $20 billion. If we go for the whole decade, it’ll cost us about $80 billion to $90 billion — that’s if we just hold the line and don’t have any layoffs.
**ANDREW:** As you know, the federal budget in 2025 had what some are calling an employment bombshell. The government said it plans to cut thousands of public sector jobs, but that’s by 2029, right?
**JASON:** Yeah, and the thousands they’re talking about cutting doesn’t come close to the number we need to cut by. If we go by the 2015 ratio of public administration to private sector employment, we’ve got about 180,000 extra over that ratio. So even 20,000 out of the federal civil service is not going to be enough.
Please correct me if I’m wrong but a) I personally believe the majority of people who read the headline assume the growth happened at the Federal level and treat it as a damning indictment of the Liberals. b) Quickly looking into it, the numbers I’m seeing up front are pointing to about 110k Federal jobs created with ~950k total Government job growth…. So 840k of those jobs weren’t at the Federal level.
Government bloat is a drain for our society. When government services are getting worse and the gov is hiring more with no better results we need to take a step back and realize what we’re doing
Then we need to remove 1,000,000 jobs.