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Jim Flaherty and Stephen Harper
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Ottawa

The quiet cuts

Reductions at the Canada Revenue Agency, Passport Canada and Elections Canada
By Aaron Wherry

The Canada Revenue Agency is reducing spending and staffing within two of its compliance programs. Passport Canada projects that a quarter of its staff will be cut. Elections Canada is putting off a pilot project on online voting. And seven Department of Fisheries libraries are scheduled to close.

See previously: The quiet cuts