PSAC assertion on upcoming federal austerity finances

Statement by Sharon DeSousa, PSAC National President

“Let me be clear: Prime Minister Carney’s austerity agenda is lazy, reckless and short-sighted and places everybody in Canada in danger. 

We noticed the devastating impacts of austerity beneath Stephen Harper and Paul Martin earlier than him – veterans with out the care they wanted, border safety stretched to the breaking level, cuts to the meals inspectors who made certain the dinner on our tables is fit for human consumption. 

Slashing public service jobs means chopping companies. Period. That means longer wait occasions for passports, employment insurance coverage and baby care advantages, cancelled applications for Canada’s most susceptible communities, and a authorities that fails to ship when individuals want it most.  

Carney’s authorities has a selection – it may be forward-looking and a mannequin employer that creates good jobs to strengthen our economic system and construct a resilient Canada, or it may well proceed to make use of old school, ineffective and lazy approaches like austerity that simply don’t work. 

We provided sensible options to chop prices in our expenditure overview submission, however we’d like a authorities that’s actually prepared to work with staff and unions — not round them.”