CBC: Civil service employees in Manitoba brace for federal budget amid fears of workforce cuts

Dr. Adam King, assistant professor of labour studies at the University of Manitoba, said what the Carney government has signalled thus far does not hint at public austerity measures in the traditional sense of cuts across the board. “It is about reorientation … toward a kind of capital-focused nation-building, to some extent, project and away from some of the emphasis on social programming and in the administrative portion of the state that grew during the Trudeau years,” King said Monday.

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