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Originally Posted by Bunk
Yes.
Chretien cut well over 20,000 from the federal bureaucracy. While seemingly quite harsh, it was what was probably needed at the time in an overly bloated federal government, which delivers few actual front line services compared to provincial or municipal governments.
In his first few years, during the same era, Bill Clinton as President had cut well over 100,000 federal positions in order to reduce the massive deficit.
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What seems to have been forgotten over time is that the liberals slashed a lot of federal bureaucracy by rolling more responsibilities down to the provinces and making it their problem.