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.