When it comes to reducing the size of Canada’s bloated public service, Prime Minister Mark Carney is a study in bafflegab.

During the federal election, Carney committed to “capping, not cutting, public service employment.”

But recently Carney changed that to reducing the federal bureaucracy “naturally through attrition,” which means not replacing employees who quit or retire.

Following that, Procurement Minister Joel Lightbound said that beyond attrition there will be “adjustments” to the civil service – the same word Finance Minister Philippe Champagne used before Carney said cuts would be by attrition.

To decipher all of this, let’s look at the numbers.

During Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government from 2015 to 2024, the federal bureaucracy grew by 43%, from 257,034 employees to 367,77

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