Parliament is opening soon and with it will come a budgetary imperative for jobs cuts in the public service. Photo by Adam Huras / Brunswick News

By Michael Wernick

As we roll toward the reopening of Parliament and a new political season, it is increasingly clear that the next couple of federal budgets are going to bring about a sharp bending of the curve regarding the size of the federal government’s workforce.

That is, of course, the government’s prerogative. Shifts in the size and composition of the public service have always tracked fiscal policy and changing priorities.

The first signs of the coming shift began with the last budget of the Justin Trudeau government in 2024 and its tapping of operating budgets. The sense of gathering storm clouds grew when Mark Carney’s gover

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