Comments on: Canadian Entrepreneurs Are Quitting While Government Employment Soars

By: Trader Jim

Trader Jim — Fri, 26 Nov 2021 19:54:24 +0000

In reply to Lee Harding. Unless an analyst says "seasonally adjusted" they're comparing October to other Octobers, but I guess they should make that clear for non-paywalled content. Seasonal variations for public sector employment would mean summers are always larger.

By: Lee Harding

Lee Harding — Fri, 26 Nov 2021 09:03:27 +0000

Your chart doesn’t match your narrative or numbers. “Public sector employment has captured its largest share of employment in three decades. It now makes up 21.8% of all people employed in the country as of October, the highest share since 1992.”

By: david

david — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 04:03:29 +0000

The strategy for many Canadians is to work for the public sector, buy homes and let newer immigrants fight to rent or buy at a higher price. The only thing saving our economy are commodities and finding immigrants who are ready to bear the brunt, but we don’t want to admit it.

I arrived 10 years ago. Worked as employee, then consultant through my own company then employee again for a major financial firm; I’m starting to have enough to live in this country. I came here ’cause life was cheaper than Western Europe and people seemed more reasonable but it is not the case anymore.

Will grab my passports and go find if the grass is greener elsewhere within the next 2 years.

By: Bala

Bala — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 03:35:52 +0000

People choose the goverment based on their policy frame work. What we choose is what we get.

By: Jim Straughan

Jim Straughan — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 02:22:44 +0000

RW One wonders what part of making issues is purposeful versus incompetent ?

By: WEXIT

WEXIT — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 20:31:13 +0000

Column is all you need to know, what it is like doing business in Canada. If you are wanting to start a business, the best thing you could do for yourself is move to a different country.

I did 30 years of business in Canada, and 8 years in the USA. In the states, you get honesty from their government sector workers, you do not get that in Canada

By: RW

RW — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 17:42:57 +0000

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Canada’s biggest competitor to job creation is the government itself. Just like they’re dropping pet infrastructure projects to boost the economy at the same time as there’s a housing labor shortage, driving up the cost of housing.

The government is just making issues and correcting them over and over.

By: Trader Jim

Trader Jim — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 17:39:35 +0000

Great paper from Cambridge on the role of self-employment being a contributor to higher per capita wage growth and reducing inequality,

It’s unfortunate you can’t have much of a discussion about the importance of self-employment without people getting upset and making up that it’s just low paid gig work.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-agricultural-and-applied-economics/article/abs/economic-impacts-of-selfemployment/499310DD4A11026C214F2DE0900D743D