Government job growth outpaced that of the private sector as the public service added nearly one million positions over the past decade, accounting for nearly one-third of the total employment increase in Canada, a new study suggests.
Canada experienced a rise of 950,000 government sector jobs from 2015 to 2024, representing approximately 30 percent of the total employment gains in the country during that timeframe, according to a recently-released report from the Fraser Institute.
“In Canada, employment in the government sector has skyrocketed over the last 10 years,” University of Regina economist and Fraser Institute senior fellow Jason Child said in a press release about the report, which he authored….