-- "The federal public service, now at 357,247 employees, is now nearly 40-per-cent larger than it was in 2015, when the Liberals took power, when it counted 257,034 employees. “Was there a bureaucrat shortage in Ottawa before Trudeau took over?” said Franco Terrazzano of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation." --YOUR MONEY... HIS ELECTORAL BASE...
-- "The federal government spent $60.7 billion on personnel in 2021–22, which accounted for over half of its total annual operational spending." --