Nearly ⅓ of Ottawa’s 944k phone lines “dormant” as government vows to find savings

In the 2023 federal budget, the Trudeau government vowed to find savings of more than $15-billion over four years.

It may want to start with the phone bill.

In 2022, the federal government spent more $165-million for more than 944,000 land and cellphone lines but, according to data quietly filed in the House of Commons days before the budget, more than 290,000 of those lines were “dormant” — not used once for three months or more.

A spokesperson for the ombudsman’s office explained that, before the pandemic, all the landlines it was paying for were active but during the pandemic its employees worked from home. As a result, the lines in the office went silent. Global’s David Akin has more.

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