The cuts behind the curtain : Epée de Damoclès : comment les compresions au gouvernement fédéral réduiront les services et feront augmenter le taux de chômage

Health care and on-reserve housing may also decline further — even in the wake of the Attawapiskat crisis — due to cuts to Health Canada and the Canada Mortgage and Hous- ing Corporation (CmhC). [...] The Personnel Budget Freeze is projected to cut $2 billion from the baseline by 2014–153 similar to the total cuts made in the four years of the Strategic Reviews (which will be fully in effect by 2013–14). [...] In fact, one of the only ways so far for Canadians to know which servi- ces have been cut is to count the lost jobs after they’ve been announced.12 This flouts democratic scrutiny, and we may well see more of the same for the final wave of cuts — the $4 billion Strategic and Operating Review. [...] These cuts come from the first wave (the 2007–10 Strategic Reviews), and include such factors as the wind-down of military activities in Afghanistan and the wrap-up of the 2011 Census. [...] The Cuts Behind the Curtain 13 For a full exposition of how this report has determined that the staff- ing and spending implications of neither the Personnel Budget Freeze nor the Strategic and Operating Review have yet been included in department- al projections, see Appendix 2. 14 Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives The Final $6 Billion: Three Scenarios of Cuts alThough The federal governmen