Shane Parrish’s Post

Are nurses and teachers considered government employees? I think proper employment in both groups bode well for the future of Canada.

Mind boggling

21%, like France. Not a sign of communism but of a socialist country. Not sure that it is such a bad sign per se!

Really does make you question where things are going. This is not good.

Something to be worried about - and with promise to an indexed pension, of course! But are we a country with low population growth, non-judicious immigration, and a baby boomer - where is our tax base? Well, we might as well jack up the already high taxes that we pay! Print more money, introduce new taxes (that does not seem hard…some of which are just optics) or anything that sounds like money in to the treasury!

21.8% is 13% less than 1 out of 4 Canadians. I wouldn't call that nearly. But it is 'more than 1 out of every 5'. Exaggeration usually weakens a point instead of strengthening it, especially to those who can see what you are doing.

So timely information! Thanks for sharing.

100%

The report says 21.6% of Canadians work in the public sector. This includes hospitals and schools. Meanwhile 14.5% of Americans work in the public sector. Based on my math, this isn’t “double”, especially when you consider that the American system is much more reliant on private medical and education.

Sounds excessive yet government spending as a % of GDP is similar to our neighbors to the south. One of the challenges of our diverse geography is creating infrastructure and a certain level of economic stability in sparsely populated locations far from our major cities. While government spending may have swelled too much in Ottawa, I'll take the community-level spending any day over the US model of directing the resources to military spending and warfare.