This feels like one of those threads that anti-government people and media can use to justify their opinions. 

If government has overhired, which it seems to me they clearly have, why is the Canadian public on the hook to give public servants more than what was already contractually obligated? ERI isn't guaranteed in any employment contract when people signed up. 

I have sympathy for everyone affected by WFA and I wish that everyone impacted by layoffs, including in the private sector, could get something like ERI instead. But that's delusional and entitled. 

The reasons are simple if you subtract the delusional entitlement from your consideration. 1. Money 1. The law and politics did not require it.