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Stimulus, defence fuelling federal public-service growth
Monday, February 7th, 2011
Sunday, Feb. 6, 2011
Even without the spending burst of the economic stimulus program, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has substantially boosted federal government expenditures during his five years in office, and added thousands of bodies to the federal public service… the prime minister has also defended the growth by saying it has focused on specific areas such as defence and consumer safety, which top the Tory policy agenda…. Relative to the growth in Canadian population under the Harper government, the federal public service grew by 7.8%.
Tags: budget, ideology
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