Federal public service unions say Canada's 2025 budget cuts would weaken the government's work as it proposes to carve off 16,000 more jobs over more than three years.
The cuts starting next year are part of the government’s larger goal of reducing the workforce to about 330,000 public servants by March 2029 — about 40,000 fewer than the all-time high in March 2024, according to the budget.
As of March this year, there were about 358,000 public servants across Canada, more than 40 per cent of them in the Ottawa-Gatineau area.
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government said the changes, if passed, would streamline the public service and free up money to invest.
Union leaders are saying it would come at the cost of an already efficient system.
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