Large scale expenditure reduction in Canada: Program Review 1994-99

12 May 2009 6:00 - 8:00pm Institute for Government, 2 Carlton Gardens, London SW1Y 5AA

Program Review was an initiative in the mid-1990s used to address the fiscal problems facing Canada, particularly the budget deficit which peaked at 9.2% of GDP in 1992. The initiative entailed a 10% reduction in federal government programme spending and a reduction in the size of the public service by over 55,000 FTEs which led to the debt to GDP ratio being cut by more than half over the next ten years.

Chaired by Sir Gus O’Donnell, Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service

Hon Jocelyne Bourgon, former Clerk of the Privy Council of Canada

Rt Hon Marcel Massé, former Clerk of the Privy Council and President of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada

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This meeting will be held in lecture format and conclude with informal discussion over wine and cheese.



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Further reading
Managing strategic change: Learning from Program Review Edited by Peter Aucoin and Donald J. Savoie Canadian Centre for Management Development (various authors) 1997 Canadian Centre for Management Development, available from Canada School of Public Service

Getting Government Right - Governing for Canadians Treasury Board Secretariat Minister of Public Works and Government Services Canada 1997

Jón Blöndal, Jón (2001) Budgeting in Canada, OECD Journal on Budgeting Vol. 1, No 2,OECD, Paris

Donald Savoie (1999) Governing from the centre: the concentration of power in Canadian politics University of Toronto Press

Government of Canada Budgets and fiscal updates 1995 – 2009 Ministry of Finance

Forum on public expenditure management