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A 43% increase in federal jobs sounds big until you realize it’s ~110,000 positions over 9 years. For this to be the ‘majority of industry growth,’ Canada would
by SirSavary 2y ago
A 43% increase in federal jobs sounds big until you realize it’s ~110,000 positions over 9 years. For this to be the ‘majority of industry growth,’ Canada would need to have added just ~200,000 jobs in total since 2015. That’s laughably off—Canada typically adds hundreds of thousands of jobs annually. For context, Canada’s employment grew by ~2.7M jobs between 2015[1] and the end of 2024[2]. Federal job growth is a drop in that bucket, not the bucket itself.
[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/437730/employment-in-canada/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/437730/employment-in-can...
[2] https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/241206/dq241206a-eng.htm https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/241206/dq241...
- loceng 2y agoA 43% increase and the state of affairs in Canada is far worse now, including that he doubled Canada's debt to over $1.2 trillion - so now our interest payments are also huge, far less money every day going to social services because it's instead just paying interest on the debt.
- adrr 2y agoCame during the pandemic like every other country and still doesn’t compare to past debt level when compared to GDP which is how you compare debt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_public_debt#/media/File:Canadian_government_debt_securities_liabilities,_1961_to_2022.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_public_debt#/media/Fi...