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Originally Posted by opendoor
But we're talking about the civil service, not overall spending. Obviously when you start subsidizing daycare, provide dental care to low income seniors, increase child benefits, have a growing senior population that receives generous OAS benefits, etc. then spending will rise. But spending on government staffing and operations is near historical lows relative to the size of the economy.
As for Carney, like any politician in a campaign, he's promising the moon and he won't be able to deliver on it. The idea that we can significantly reduce federal government spending without touching the things he says won't be affected (OAS, healthcare, child benefits, dental care, etc.) isn't really realistic. Everyone campaigns on finding efficiencies to do all the heavy lifting for their promises, but it never materializes.
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Lets take a look at the PBO Personnel Expenditure Analysis tool:
https://www.pbo-dpb.ca/en/research--...fonctionnement
Looks like total government operating expenditure increased from about ~$60M in FY2015 to ~$150M in FY2023. There was a 29% increase in full-time equivalent employees in that timeframe.