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Canada’s public service has become increasingly Ottawa-centric, with federal employees at regional operations bearing a disproportionate share of job cuts over the past three years.

The Parliamentary Budget Office’s latest report on the government’s supplementary estimates shows personnel costs, which peaked in 2012, fell with the elimination of nearly 21,000 jobs after the Conservatives implemented their cost-cutting 2012 budget.

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The cuts of the past two years, however, show public servants working outside of the National Capital Region took a disproportionate hit.

The capital region has emerged with more than 42 per cent of all federal jobs now located here.

“The bottom line is that, proportionately, there have been more cuts in the regions than in the NCR,” said Mostafa Askari, assistant parliamentary budget officer.

The report found about two-thirds of the job cuts were outside the National Capital Region, where the head offices of most departments and agencies are located.