Potential impacts of cuts to jobs and services:

• Higher user fees.
• Less enforcement of laws and regulations; more reliance on industry self-regulation.
• Programs and services delivered less frequently or not at all.
• Contracting-out or privatizing services that result in companies cutting corners on quality to maximize profits.
• Delays and increased wait times for processing government forms and legal documents.
• Greater risk to the privacy of your personal information.
• Less accountability to the public.
• Less spending in communities where there are job losses.
• Increased use of consultants, leading to higher program costs.
• Less transparency due to Freedom of Information laws not applying to programs moved outside of government.
• Government will be left with a policy-making function but will lack the capacity and resources for enforcement and front-line service delivery.