Bloated federal bureaucracy offers no benefits
It used to be common for opposition politicians to ask at election time: “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” In other words, had the current government improved voters’ lives during its tenure?
Well, it might be a good time to ask of the Trudeau government: “Are you being better served by the federal government than you were eight years ago?”
Since they came to power in 2015, the Trudeau Liberals have added nearly 100,000 federal civil servants to the taxpayers’ payroll.
According to numbers provided by the federal Treasury Board late last month, there were 259,000 federal bureaucrats when Justin Trudeau was sworn in as prime minister in November 2015. Today there are 357,000, an increase of 98,000 federal employees.
That’s a staggering rise of 40% during the Liberals’ time in office.
Are you getting 40% better service from Ottawa than you were eight years ago?
Canada has been a country for 156 years. Justin Trudeau has been in charge for just 5% of that time, yet he has increased the size of the federal payroll by 40%.
