The federal public service has shrunk for the first time since 2015, after shedding nearly 10,000 jobs over the last year, according to new data released by the Treasury Board Secretariat (TBS).

Of the 9,807 jobs cut between 2024 and 2025, a significant majority — 7,051, or 72 per cent — were in federal agencies such as Parks Canada, the National Capital Commission and the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA). The rest — 2,756 or 28 per cent — were in the core public administration.

In March 2024, 367,772 federal public servants were employed between the agencies and the administration. One year later, that number had dropped to 357,965, a 2.6 per cent decrease in the overall workforce.

According to data from the TBS ,1,526 of the jobs lost were in the National Capital Region.

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