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Canadian Public Sector Employment

In: Strategic Choices in Reforming Public Service Employment

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  • Mark Thompson

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The traditional Canadian view of the state has been challenged by government efforts to control or reduce expenditures, beginning in the late 1980s. Reduction of government deficits became a primary goal of government fiscal policies. A prime minister made reducing the size of the national public service an election issue in 1984. Virtually all governments have restricted spending, from holding increases to the rise in the consumer price index to absolute expenditure reductions. Where population growth dictates increased demand for such services as health and education, per capita spending declined in real terms. Table 6.1 demonstrates the broad impact of these policies.

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  • Mark Thompson, 2001. "Canadian Public Sector Employment," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Carlo Dell’Aringa & Giuseppe Rocca & Berndt Keller (ed.), Strategic Choices in Reforming Public Service Employment, chapter 6, pages 127-154, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-4039-2017-1_6
    DOI: 10.1057/9781403920171_6
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