The union, which held a rally to denounce the cuts last week, said in a news release that it’s demanding the government explain why experienced public servants are facing waves of workforce reductions as outsourcing spending reaches record highs.
because it's not about saving money. if they wanted to save money, they would do the opposite, which would be to abolish outsourcing. the reason public service costs have increased is that they're handing out lucrative contracts to pr agencies and hr firms, who get paid 2-3x as much as unionized workers do, particularly in management.
what it's about is privatizing the public service so that political parties, which are now organized like private corporations, are able to hand out political favours and cushy contracts to donors and allies. it's about ensuring that the party can turn the day to day running of the country into a means of rewarding those close to it and punishing those opposed to it.
this isn't how a democracy or a democratic society functions. one of the primary characteristics of a democracy in the modern era is a strong and independent public service, which runs the country independently and is sheltered from political corruption by an inability of the ruling party to control or alter work contracts based on obedience to party dictates. a state where any labour, but particularly public service labour, is controlled by the ruling political party is a characteristic of fascism, and the kind of thing you tend to mostly see in extremely corrupt middle eastern countries, which canada is essentially in the process of converting itself into.
what's going on here is not conservative cost-cutting, it's typical backroom deal liberal corruption. they're trying to make that kind of corruption systemic and endemic. it's time for a change in government. canada's greatest strength is it's independent public service, and the country will be left in ruins if the ruling party declares war on it, because that's not going to be an easy fight.
the idea is not that the liberals want to save money, it's that they want to be able to make hiring people conditional on obedience to the party, and they want to get rid of career employees that have no allegiance to any one party.
heil carney!