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OTTAWA — A trio of former Conservative ministers authorized more than $100,000 in “personal coaching” contracts to help a handful of their political staff find new jobs after last fall’s election.

And while several Conservative aides were polishing their resumes at taxpayer expense, dozens of incoming Liberals spent more than $50,000 on media coaches and another $32,000 on other kinds of coaches.

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But the bill for “coaching services” for politicians and their partisan aides paled in comparison to what was spent to coach non-partisan civil servants.

Between Nov. 4, 2015 — the day the Trudeau government was sworn in — and Oct. 17 of this year, more than $4 million was spent on media, personal, and other “coaching services” for civil servants.

Most of that money was spent to groom bureaucrats for ever-higher promotions, to prep them for board interviews and, in some cases, to teach them to be better supervisors and improve their ability to deal with stress.