More: Parliamentary Budget Officer reveals federal employees cost more than double the average Canadian income
The total federal public service headcount all categories, not just permanent was 282,980 in 2010. By 2024, it was 367,772. That’s a 30% increase overall. But notice the difference: indeterminate jobs grew even faster than the public service as a whole. In other words, the growth has been concentrated in the most secure, most expensive category. The permanent class.
A real eye-opener. Needless to say, the corporate media are censoring this story. Mark Carney’s Elbows Up and all.
Public admin for the win! 10 years and just how long can their winning streak go?
To the moon public admin! To success! more! harder! faster!
lol…
Voting has consequences. When you vote for economic vandalism that chart is what you get.
The main growth areas in Canada are public administration, non-profit NGO administration (usually for outfits people wouldn’t want to know their tax dollars are going to), AI startups (most of which will fail within two years) and big consultancy (which contracts to government).
Few people realize that in addition to this divide in employment opportunity, there’s a growing disparity in real income as well. The mid-level government managers who lived in my old neighborhood in Ottawa were typically making between $170K and $200K, while their private sector counterparts might be making $80K to $120K.
This is why public servants can’t understand how the rest of Canada are so bothered by tax rates and inflation. Their net income is substantially higher, and they simply don’t feel the same level of economic pain.
Congrats. all my elbows-out Canadian America-haters! You WON! You BEAT the badOrangeMan! You’ve de-industrialized faster than even your most energetic de-carbonizers ever imagined. You’ll hit your Net ZERO target while we baaaad Americans are still buying gasoline for $2.87/gal.
And Congrats. on all your newfound FREE time. You can finally take that hike in the woods you’ve been dreaming about! … err … well you can stay inside and watch the CBC anyway.
I have a question:
How many insignificants are there in a statistic? (Pardon the poor English usage). And if you are suddenly unemployed, is that not significant to you? Do you like being called insignificant by your own government whose callous disregard you are experiencing right now? Will you finally get the message that your government doesn’t care about you at all, that the “safety” word rolling out of its political maw is meaningless, and that your “safety” depends solely on you? That you don’t need government at all because it has become an insatiable beast bent on your destruction, despite all of its grunting and growling to the contrary?
Remember the goal.
Bad money forces good money out.
Bad government forces good money out.
Is there such a thing as “good government”?
No.
But “Maths is hard” bleat the Watchers of CBC.
Government is always a cost.
Every minion of “Good Government” no matter how “essential and ethical” they be is a non-producer.
A cost those who work must carry.
1:10 is barely affordable,but has proven workable over the centuries.
For that one person to “Stand on Guard” means that 10 must share the cost of feeding and arming that watchdog.
So assuming we pay that one person $100 000 and spend another 100,000 to equip them..10 of us must share that cost of $10 000 each per year..
When the number of these “helpers” swells to 4:10 that cost becomes $40 000 per annum.
( of course these numbers are pure fiction as even the ratio is arguable..4 of 10 or 4 for every 10?)
Then throw in government standards and the modern bureaucrat…”Good enough for government” and you see why everything government touches turns to crap.
A natural result of over promising results and under reporting reality.
… nobody in the west voted into their socialism, it only remains to shoot our way out.
That looks exactly like what we experienced for four years under the doddering, hateful, lost pedophile from Delaware.
It’s actually much worse than shown….while federal government employees cost much more, they also IMPEDE the productivity of those in the private sector. So they cost a ton and they are a cement shoes for the economy.
Not only that, their own productivity is somewhere down in the toilet. So, cost twice as much as the private sector, half (or less) as effective…
Impossible condition.
Waste and Destruction are not productive actions.
Government minions have no “productivity” .
That is not what they do.
Obstructing productive people..now that is their skill set..But this is always a cost,never a benefit.