Combined federal, provincial and municipal government spending across Canada accounts for 40.5% of the entire Canadian economy, far above the ideal level of 26% to 30% needed to maximize economic growth, according to a study by the Fraser Institute released Tuesday.
That’s how you buy public service union votes.
A redacted version of a report crafted by Canada’s RCMP titled “Whole-of-Government Five-Year Trends for Canada” has been released and it warns Canada could soon descend into civil unrest due to several factors, including a bleak economic outlook.
Canada was once known as one of the most easygoing nations on earth. Canadians were quick to apologize and polite to a fault. It was never imagined this population of passive, laid-back people could experience large-scale civil disorder and pushback against authorities. Recent events have exposed a nation frustrated with the actions of its government to the point of bringing citizens to the streets in protest, and the RCMP expects this trend to become more acute.
The federal government’s “first zero-carbon building” in the National Capital Region, which was built at Rideau Hall and cost Canadian taxpayers over $8 million, had nearly half a million dollars spent on architects’ fees, records indicate.
An Inquiry of Ministry document tabled in Parliament on Jan. 29 showed that 86 separate contracts were issued over 10 years for the construction of the solar-powered warehouse, also known as “the barn,” at the national historic site and the official residence and office of the Governor General.
Canada has reached the “Loot the treasury” phase of its descent into a 3rd World shitbox country.
A former director of Canada’s spy agency says the tendency of government entities to protect and over-classify information plays well with officials who seek to avoid public controversy.
“Over time, the protective culture becomes dominant and this actually sits well with ministers and central agencies and senior officials, especially when … the practical effect is reducing the likelihood of controversy,” Richard Fadden told the Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference on Jan. 31.
The Trudeau government has increased the size of the federal public service by 37.9%, or almost 100,000 additional employees, since coming to power in 2015, according to a new study by the Montreal Economic Institute.
As of March 31, 2023, the total number of federal employees reached 357,247, the study says, marking the biggest staff increase since 1984.
This is just another example of the Liberal party buying votes with your tax dollars.
When you add up all public service employees at all levels of government federal, provincial, municipal plus the staff of tax payer dependent NGO’s it amounts to a sizable vote bloc.
Add in spouses and other family members and the Liberals have a built in edge against any opponent who raises the spectre of cuts to government bureacracy.
While no group is homogenous I am certain the vast majority of our bureacrats will vote Liberal-left.
Civil servants in Ontario have won a pay increase worth almost 10 per cent for the three years their wages were frozen by Bill 124.
The pay increase for non-political staffers who work in the provincial government comes after mediation and arbitration between the union and the Ford government.
It comes as the union continues to win backpay deals from the province over its wage restraint law, Bill 124.
h/t DS
Pay for executives working in the federal government increased over half a billion dollars in less than 10 years, according to the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF).
Compensation for executives across federal departments and agencies increased from $1.38 billion in 2015 to $1.95 billion in 2022, an increase of 41 percent, according to a CTF federal commentary published Jan. 17, citing data obtained from access-to-information records.
The organization also found that, over that seven-year period, the number of federal executives increased 31 percent, from 7,138 to 9,371, while inflation, based on Statistics Canada data, increased 19.4 percent.
The public service is an LPC vote bloc cultivated at our expense.
Over the last several years, senior federal civil servants have repeatedly expressed their surprise at Canadians’ eroding faith in government.
Do they not get out much and speak with dissatisfied, ordinary citizens? I suppose in their vacuum-sealed social and professional worlds they encounter very few people angered by the daily intrusions of government in their personal lives.
The federal public service reached a record size last year as the amount of jobs filled through non-advertised posts soared to nearly three times the level prior to the election of the Liberal government in 2015.
In addition, more public servants switched jobs, resigned or were investigated than at any time during the Trudeau government’s mandate, new statistics from the Public Service Commission of Canada show.
“… We know that the size of the federal public service has grown by 24 per cent over the last eight years and spending on outside consultants has increased by a third over the past five years. But growth in the size of the federal government and the scale of government spending has not improved access to government programs and services. Public-opinion surveys report a growing frustration over the deteriorating level of federal government services: Nearly 50 per cent of Canadians report that they are “very unsatisfied” or “unsatisfied” with the services the federal government provides. We need to go below the surface to understand why.”
Canada issued a travel advisory for the United States over LGBT-related laws last summer at the prompting of concerned Health Canada staff, access to information records obtained by the National Post show.
That travel advisory, which remains in effect since it was issued Aug. 29, reads: “Some states have enacted laws and policies that may affect 2SLGBTQI+ persons. Check relevant state and local laws.” Following outcry, Deputy Prime Minster Chrystia Freeland said the move was initiated by the public service and was in no way politically motivated.
Canada’s bureaucrats and their unions need to be crushed.
h/t Mauser
Someone should make sure her passport is seized ….
Sudden Goodbye
After revealing her company received $10 million in 1 year from this Liberal government, Trudeau's former Chair of his $1 Billion Green Slush Fund tried a new obstruction tactic…just walking away from committee. pic.twitter.com/iO2kYapM0V
— Michael Barrett (@MikeBarrettON) December 12, 2023
Canadians were horrified as the carnage and bloodshed were unfolding in Israel during the unprecedented terrorist attack by Hamas was unfolding. The horror turned to outrage for many when the social media account for the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) local 3906 cheered on the attack, saying “Palestine is rising, long live the resistance!”
CUPE 3906 represents staff and faculty members at McMaster University. The university quickly released a statement distancing itself from its own union.
Behold union leadership…
President of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) of Ontario Fred Hahn says he and the union stand in support of ANTIFA
pic.twitter.com/Z0EYQAccuP— Marie Oakes (@TheMarieOakes) September 22, 2023
h/t Mauser
Public sector jobs in Canada since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic have grown at a rate more than three times as fast as those in the private sector, including the self-employed, according to a new study by the Fraser Institute.
No secret there, they tend to be concentrated in urban centres like Toronto and Ottawa traditional Liberal Party strongholds. The LPC is just shoring up the vote.
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