Spending cuts from the federal government could add up to more than 57,000 full-time job losses between 2024 to 2028, a new report says.
The hardest hit areas will be the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC), and Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC), according to the report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).
A total of 11,610 jobs were lost this year in non-protected departments since 2024—cuts that are attributed to former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s administration rather than the current government headed by Prime Minister Mark Carney.
“These losses weren’t the result of the Carney cuts—they were a delayed impact of the budget 2023 ‘refocusing government’ cuts,” noted the July 24 report, which is authored by CCPA senior economist David Macdonald….