Cutting the public sector just like the Conservatives do. Carney’s government is conservatism under another name.
Austerity is common to both liberals and conservatives as both support the primacy of business over workers. More workers on the street increases the willingness of the workforce to work for less or do shittier jobs at someone else’s business. The economic lib-con difference tends to be in degree (and lately competence), not in priorities.
Is it austerity when the Liberals ballooned spending past their own fiscal guardrails, where Freeland wrote a letter condemning Trudeau, and now Carney ran an even bigger deficit?
Austerity rarely means reduced total spending. Rather it usually shifts money from going to the working people and into large private business owners. Any talk about concern for the size of deficit and budget is usually bullshit. Look who’s getting more of that spending and who’s getting less. That’s what it’s almost always about.
Just want to point out this “news” is a month old.
Most departments already informed the people who’d be cut.
As it’s always the case with these massive cuts, the entire thing is deplorable. The only things I believe they got right, is that they did not kick people to the street immediately, instead they alerted people that their positions will end months or years ahead. Hopefully, plenty of time for them to arrange a transition
The Trudeau era of hiring was not sustainable, and frankly, fucking ridiculous.
you mean the one caused by a global pandemic that lasted multiple years plus the lovely gift of Phoenix?
I agree it was not to last forever, but to think it was ridiculous is just silly
Wow, StatsCan is hit particularly hard.
So as someone who does a lot of stats in the private sector, and has known a lot of stats can employees…
They are still woefully behind industry in practices and efficiency.
It’s still incredibly difficult to just pull data from statscan, and they could be storing/distributing it 100x more efficiently with modern open formats like parquet – which would massively cut costs. The vector system they use is incredibly confusing.
They do now have containerized notebookd and an on demand cluster. So that’s something we had 10 years ago.
From the people I know there, they don’t feel they’re learning, they feel their skills are useless and atrophying, and leadership sounds like it’s filled by brown nosing morons. There’s also a lot of people who I would never have hired there – but same with big corps.
It’s funny, I’d love access to their data, or to do work for them, but I could never work there.
ETA: I should clarify, I don’t think the problem is entirely too many people, it’s shit leadership, overly burdensome rules, lack of tech innovation (admittedly, they are improving).
I think one issue that really bites government workers is the idea that you spend your whole career in one place, from university to retirement. Frankly, that’s a horrible idea in the 21st century. You need to bring in people with expertise, you need diversity of thought, and you need people who have worn many hats in their lives.
The field of analytics has changed a lot in 10-15 years, and Stat Can has not had a good pace.
As an orange man once said, if you don’t count, you don’t have a problem.
