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Cutting the public sector just like the Conservatives do. Carney's government is conservatism under another name.
Austerity is common to both liberals and conservatives as both support the primacy of business over workers. More workers on the street increases the willingness of the workforce to work for less or do shittier jobs at someone else's business. The economic lib-con difference tends to be in degree (and lately competence), not in priorities.
Just want to point out this "news" is a month old.
Most departments already informed the people who'd be cut.
As it's always the case with these massive cuts, the entire thing is deplorable. The only things I believe they got right, is that they did not kick people to the street immediately, instead they alerted people that their positions will end months or years ahead. Hopefully, plenty of time for them to arrange a transition
The Trudeau era of hiring was not sustainable, and frankly, fucking ridiculous.
If you take the change in population, the peak of this graph makes the number of public service workers per capita about the same as it was at the beginning of the graph in 1990.
And here's going a little further back as percentage of pop:
you mean the one caused by a global pandemic that lasted multiple years plus the lovely gift of Phoenix?
I agree it was not to last forever, but to think it was ridiculous is just silly
Yet they're going to contract more consultants and with RTO4 they need to rent more space.
It's the classic thing where you cut social services, then turn around to say how terrible public sector is, and use that as a justification for privatizing
Wow, StatsCan is hit particularly hard.
As an orange man once said, if you don't count, you don't have a problem.
So as someone who does a lot of stats in the private sector, and has known a lot of stats can employees...
They are still woefully behind industry in practices and efficiency.
It's still incredibly difficult to just pull data from statscan, and they could be storing/distributing it 100x more efficiently with modern open formats like parquet -- which would massively cut costs. The vector system they use is incredibly confusing.
They do now have containerized notebookd and an on demand cluster. So that's something we had 10 years ago.
From the people I know there, they don't feel they're learning, they feel their skills are useless and atrophying, and leadership sounds like it's filled by brown nosing morons. There's also a lot of people who I would never have hired there -- but same with big corps.
It's funny, I'd love access to their data, or to do work for them, but I could never work there.
ETA: I should clarify, I don't think the problem is entirely too many people, it's shit leadership, overly burdensome rules, lack of tech innovation (admittedly, they are improving).
I think one issue that really bites government workers is the idea that you spend your whole career in one place, from university to retirement. Frankly, that's a horrible idea in the 21st century. You need to bring in people with expertise, you need diversity of thought, and you need people who have worn many hats in their lives.
The field of analytics has changed a lot in 10-15 years, and Stat Can has not had a good pace.
They do now have containerized notebookd and an on demand cluster. So that's something we had 10 years ago.
Containers violate iso27002. The pros know that chasing the sparkle is a bad idea.
spend your whole career in one place, from university to retirement. Frankly, that's a horrible idea in the 21st century. You need to bring in people with expertise
No. You train your staff because you value them -- you don't ditch experience. You'll discover the truth of this eventually.
Also, how do containers violate iso27002? Not familiar with it.
And when I said containers, what I mean is the ability to spin up an environment on-demand with specified resources and a notebook environment.
I really want to agree with you.
No. You train your staff because you value them – you don’t ditch experience. You’ll discover the truth of this eventually.
I wish this was common sentiment. The modern company only values you on the way in or the way out. Otherwise you don’t have any leverage.
I’ve always believed in the idea of hiring either experienced technical leaders you want to keep around and who will mentor, and junior staff who can be mentored into roles where they’ll be happy+productive for the long term.
Around 2021 I stopped being a manager and companies stopped doing this.
But this does come back to my point: Stat Can needs fresh blood to bring in new ideas. I don’t think they have those modern technical leaders the way they should, and they’re still stuck on legacy tools that make it impossible to pull in private sector veterans.
I’m going to keep saying it over and over and over again: Strategic voting is stupid as hell and it avoided nothing. The only thing it really did was fuck up the NDP.
Good job, idiots.