Budget 2025 was a missed opportunity to impose change on a complacent, top-heavy public service. Cuts are coming to the public service, 40,000 in total,1000 of which are to be executive positions. The result is a worsening of the ratio of executives to non-executives.
In a publication with the C.D Howe Institute, SPS's Brigid Waddingham and Eugene Lang examine the net impacts of budget commitments on the size and structure of the public service.