What you won’t find in Carney’s mini-budget

Here’s the thing about that review, however, despite its call to reduce the public service by about 40,000 positions over the next few years: It’s really not that comprehensive. Many of those positions will be eliminated through retirement and other forms of attrition, and those reductions would only return the size of the federal bureaucracy to what it was a few years ago amid the Trudeau hiring spree.