🇨🇦 CRA sees biggest drop, shedding 3,725 workers, as federal public service shrinks for second year

After a decade of payroll bloat, Ottawa wants applause for trimming a bureaucracy that still sits at 345,282 federal employees. That is after a two-year drop of 22,490 jobs, and the grand Carney vision is to bring it down to about 330,000 by 2028-29, as reported. Translation: the state ballooned under Trudeau-era management, and now the same class that built the machine is selling a partial rollback as hard fiscal courage.

The funniest part is the panic over the CRA losing 3,725 workers, with union brass insisting fewer tax collectors means citizens might not pay their fair share. Of course they say that. Every branch of the managerial state claims civilization ends if its headcount dips by a few points. Yet National Defence and the Communications Security Establishment still grew, while the RCMP and Correctional Service stayed almost flat. So no, this is not some libertarian revolution. It is a small retreat from bureaucratic excess, with the security apparatus protected and the tax empire mildly inconvenienced. Canada is still paying for years of regime-building in Ottawa.

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