If bigger government meant better government, our federal government would get the gold medal for making the lives of Canadian better.

The operative word is “if”.

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The “old” Liberal government under Justin Trudeau, as opposed to the “new” Liberal government, as it calls itself, under Mark Carney, cracked the code for bigger government.

From 2015 to 2025, the federal bureaucracy grew by almost 40%, from 257,034 employees to 357,965, an increase of more than 100,000.

According to the parliamentary budget officer, the federal payroll increased by 80% during that period, from $39.6 billion in 2015 to $71.4 billion in 2024-25.

While there’s no definitive figure I could find for the cost of paying a full-time equivalent (FTE) position in the public service in 2015 – including salaries, pensions and benefits – it has also increased rapidly, from $136,345 in........

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