[loceng]

Please look at these numbers in depth - not how they're presenting them.

Similarly, the majority of industry growth has been Federal jobs - from Grok:

"Since Trudeau took office in 2015, the size of the federal public service has grown by approximately 43%. By March 31, 2024, the federal government's payroll included 367,772 employees, up from 257,034 in 2015."

43% increase; paid for by the public.

[SirSavary]

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-can... [2] https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/241206/dq241...

[loceng]

A 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]

Came 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/Fi...