Trudeau has fattened federal bureaucracy by nearly 40 percent: report

The nearly 40 percent increase in staff has, in turn, cost Canadian taxpayers 68 percent more than it did when Stephen Harper left office.

According to a recent report from the Montreal Economic Institute, Trudeau has increased the number of government employees by a whopping 37.9 percent, with their salaries now costing taxpayers $67 billion.

While many prime ministers reduce the number of public servants during their time in office, Trudeau has decided to go the other direction with spending.

"Since the Trudeau government came to power, there has been an unprecedented expansion in the size of the bureaucracy," said Gabriel Giguère, public policy analyst at the MEI and author of the aforementioned study. "The government seems to have lost control of government growth."

Giguère noted that the federal government now has 357,247 public servants, nine for every 1,000 people living in Canada. That figure is 25.3 percent higher than it was under Harper's Conservative leadership.

"The growth in the federal workforce under the Trudeau government has broken with the restraint that characterized the governments of the previous 40 years," he said.

Giguère went on to point out that, "given such a large increase in the size of government, one might expect Canadians to see a significant difference in the quantity and quality of federal services," lamenting the fact that, "this has not materialized."

A poll conducted by Leger on behalf of the Fraser Institute in March 2023, for example, found that only 16 percent of Canadians "believe they are getting good or great value from the services they receive from governments."

Nearly 45 percent, on the other hand, said they feel Canadians get "poor or very poor value from the services they receive from governments like health care, education, police, roads, and national defence."