OTTAWA, ON: The federal government spent more than $1.6 billion on overtime pay from 2019 to 2021 while it met less than half its performance objectives and while it hired more than 15,000 new employees each year, according to records obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
“When you spend extra money on overtime and hiring more employees you expect top results,” said Franco Terrazzano, Federal Director of the CTF. “The federal government is spending buckets of cash on overtime pay and more bureaucrats and it still can’t meet half its performance targets.”
