Axe falls at Public Works amid wave of government purchases

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Public Works managers informed their employees Monday the department will shed about 700 jobs over the coming three years, a move one union leader says will include the elimination of 92 auditors.

Mr. Corbett said he did not know for sure what percentage of all auditor positions are being eliminated in the department, but that it is a “sizeable chunk.”

Public Works, a large department with a dozen sections that include responsibilities for government contracts and real estate holdings, was at the centre of the Liberal sponsorship scandal of the 1990s that ultimately helped propel the Conservatives into office in 2006.

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