Growing Government Workforce Puts Pressure on Federal Finances is a new essay, as part of a series on federal reform, that finds the federal workforce has grown more rapidly than the Canadian population starting in 2015/16, imposing significant costs on taxpayers.
Economic Recovery in Canada before and after COVID: Job Growth in the Government and Private Sectors finds that historically, no other recent era of recession and recovery in Canada have been so dominated by government sector job growth compared to private sector job growth, with 8 out of 10 provinces' government sector growth exceeding that of the private sector.
| By: Alex Whalen, Lawrence Schembri and Joel Emes
Our Incomes Are Falling Behind: Earnings in the Canadian Provinces and U.S. States, 2010-2022 finds that the median employment earnings—wages, salaries and self-employment income—of workers were lower in every Canadian province than in every state in the United States.
A Comparative Analysis of the Economic Performance of Canada and Its OECD Competitors, 2007-2019 finds that over the last business cycle (2007 to 2019), and long before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, Canada was already underperforming other advanced countries on important investment, employment and productivity measures that are key to higher living standards.
