Although Champagne didn’t mention it Monday, the government has also tried to trim spending, although it will not be nearly enough to pay for the new bills. Last year’s budget proposed cutting the federal bureaucracy by about 40,000 jobs through attrition and targeted pink slips. But that only goes part of the way to undoing the dramatic 42 per cent increase of about 110,000 in public service employees between 2015 and 2025.
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