OTTAWA — The federal government added more than 10,000 employees to the federal public service last year, swelling Ottawa’s bureaucracy to record levels.

Numbers <a data-evt-val="{&quot;control_fields&quot;: {&quot;mparticle&quot;: {&quot;keys&quot;: {&quot;click_source_type&quot;: &quot;click_source_type&quot;, &quot;anchor_text&quot;: &quot;anchor_text&quot;, &quot;target_url&quot;: &quot;target_url&quot;, &quot;layout_section&quot;: &quot;layout_section&quot;}, &quot;mp_event_type&quot;: &quot;Navigation&quot;, &quot;extra_keys&quot;: [&quot;click_vertical_position_percentage&quot;, &quot;click_vertical_position_pixels&quot;]}}, &quot;click_source_type&quot;: &quot;in-page link&quot;, &quot;anchor_text&quot;: &quot;posted online by the Treasury Board of Canada&quot;, &quot;target_url&quot;: &quot;https://www.canada.ca/en/treasury-board-secretariat/services/innovation/human-resources-statistics/population-federal-public-service.html&quot;, &quot;layout_section&quot;: &quot;in-page-link&quot;}" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-evt="click" data-evt-typ="click" href="https://www.canada.ca/en/treasury-board-secretariat/services/innovation/human-resources-statistics/population-federal-public-service.html" target="_blank">posted online by the Treasury Board of Canada</a> puts the current population of the federal public service at 367,772 employees — a 10,525 increase from last year.

That’s down from the 21,290 new employees added to the public service ranks in fiscal year 2022-23, and 16,356 from the year previous.

The size of Canada's public service has ballooned by 42 per cent since the 2015 election of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.{ai:summary}<p>Ottawa's federal public service hits record levels with over 10,000 new employees added last year. Total now stands at 367,772. #economy</p>

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