>public sector growth has outpaced private sector during that whole time
Interesting, do you have a source for this? Would love to read more about it
Interesting, do you have a source for this? Would love to read more about it
Sept 2023 - Public sector employees: 4,291.7; Private sector employees: 13,293.4; Self-employed: 2,685.1
Sept 2003 - Public sector employees: 2,945.8; Private sector employees: 10,298.9; Self-employed: 2,430.0
Difference - Public sector employees: 1,345.9; Private sector employees: 2994.5; Self-employed: 255.1
% growth - Public sector employees: 45.7%; Private sector employees: 29.1%; Self-employed: 10.5%
Where did all the jobs come from? Are people not retiring? Spending less time in schooling?
It's wasn't a massive decrease in unemployment that could explain that.
The remaining 26% is the real question - who did huge hiring over the past 20 years?
I'd suggest a more constructive comment might be to find an example source and ask whether it is consistent with the reasoning. These "source?" comments are low effort and degrade the quality of conversation.
Understanding whether we are looking at causation or correlation is important here. Canada is neighbours with the largest economy in the world, with the Canadian economy being heavily influenced by the American economy. Quite often public programs are introduced simply to be competitive because the private sector is not stepping up. (At least that is the perception. That perception is important polticially.)
In any case, their claims seem to line up with the Statscan data to me, and I don't see where else they would have gotten this data from.
However, what is "stepping up," in the private sector, as if it involves putting down our cigars and caviar and having our butlers open the jobs lever a bit, I'd suggest there is a broken ontology at play.