The president of Ontario’s Treasury Board, Caroline Mulroney, is responsible for making sure all of the province’s agencies, boards and commissions are well run. Effective immediately, Mulroney has decreed: All 143 government agencies are subject to a hiring freeze.

In 2018, Premier Doug Ford’s newly elected government mandated a hiring freeze for the public service — a freeze that remains in place to this day. Mulroney’s decision means these measures apply, as well, to provincial agencies, boards and commissions.

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“We instituted the hiring freeze across the Ontario public service in 2018,” Mulroney affirms in an interview, “and around the same time, the provincial government began a comprehensive review of our agencies.”

“There was some consolidation that occurred su

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