A department has been created to consolidate duplicate services offered through totally functional departments & agents inside a federal government. To the full implementation of Service Canada might roll retired per prevent of fiscal season 2007-2008 & may provide Canadians using "one-stop, easy access to the benefits and services they need, through the channel of their choice, whether that is by phone, in-person, or the Internet."

A creation of Service Canada, modelled fallowing a foremost government service firm inside Canada, Service New Brunswick, has been viewed with concern per Public Service Alliance of Canada which believes that the government of Prime Minister Martin will use service consolidation as a means to reduce a total of public servants.

A Treasury Board Secretariat is spearheading the implementation of the department & predicts lower cost of as much as $3 billion (CAD) terminated Quint years, mostly recovered from either the decreased public service. A bit of media stand reported job cuts can total to 20,000+. At a start, it was undecipherable whether Service Canada would become created as a separate functional department, or even an professional aligned by using an existent department like the Department of Public Works and Government Services. Service Canada was officially launched as a department in September 13, 2005 using Hon. Belinda Stronach when its number one minister.