Feds seek parliamentary approval for $198.1-billion in budgetary spending for next fiscal year
The main estimates for 2023-24 detail $432.9-billion in planned spending, although Budget 2023 will introduce further cash commitments for the fiscal year.
Return-to-office mandate a step backwards for all Canadians
The offices aren’t ready, lacking equipment and offering a shortage of workstations.
Government seeks $10.3-billion in extra spending to close out the fiscal year
If approved before March 31, the government’s final spending update for 2022-23 would bring total budgetary spending for the year to $443.3-billion, a 7.1 per cent increase over the previous year.
Focus on service delivery, not where bureaucrats’ work is done
Tinkering with one element of the terms and conditions of employment of public service employees while ignoring the need to evolve the basic service delivery model for Canadians will only lead to greater deterioration of support and confidence in the federal public service overall.
Treasury Board directive flies in the face of research on productivity
It is only a matter of time before the Treasury Board’s policy will have to be revised, as recruitment and retention challenges intensify. However, some of Canada’s most productive federal public servants will have left by then.
Hybrid work in the federal public service is here to stay, there’s no going back to 2019
A new way of thinking is seriously required, one that demands a much bigger conversation about the future of downtown Ottawa. You may recall the ridicule heaped on a public service manager who suggested that employees should come back to the office in order to support a local Subway franchise. Bringing public servants back downtown is not going to make the Byward Market area any safer or resolve the LRT mess.
Why Treasury Board cannot be trusted to fix its own whistleblowing mess
The Treasury Board’s track record has repeatedly proven it lacks not only the expertise to produce an effective whistleblowing law, but also any intention of doing so.
Three federal agencies ‘demystified’ at 3 Brewers Sparks in Ottawa
IPAC-NCR hosted its third educational event offering a behind-the-scenes look at Treasury, Finance, and the Privy Council Office.
