The federal government gave pay raises to more than 330,000 bureaucrats last year, according to recently published information obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) under an access-to-information request. Of the executive group, 15,831 people received pay raises, amounting to more than 87 per cent of that group. When Carney's government released its first budget last November, it promised the federal public service would see "a decline of about 40,000" jobs by the end of the 2028-29 fiscal year. That included jobs that had been shed since the size of the public service peaked in 2023-24. Taxpayers pay these wages and they have a right to know the bill."