The federal government employs 400,000 people, more or less – and will probably still employ 400,000 people, more or less, when it completes its modest downsizing in 2015. With a maximum hit of 12,000 people, it is a modest downsizing, indeed: one worker a year, for three years, for every 100 workers who keep their jobs.
Public Sector
Don’t Nickel and Dime Our MPPs: Do we really want to pay 80-hour-a-week lesgislators less than a Fort Mcmurray truck driver?
Vic Fedeli is at his desk at the Ontario legislature by 7:30 every morning. Fedeli, 55, figures he works 80-90 hours a week, not including travel time. He’s paid $116,550 a year. That’s less than the chief librarian in Ajax, Ont., or a fire training officer in Brampton. And unlike his cohorts, there’s no fat pension waiting for the burnt-out politician when he retires.
Policy Settings Need Seismic Shift
A year ago a series of major earthquakes reduced the heart of Christchurch to rubble and tore at the foundations of New Zealand's precarious fiscal position. In common with much of the developed world, the tectonic plates of an entrenched sense of entitlement and...
B.C. Residents want Pay Equity between Public, Private Sector: Clark calls idea ‘interesting’; union says jobs are hard to compare
Four out of five British Columbians say government employees should be paid the same amount as people doing the same jobs in the private sector, according to an Angus Reid survey commissioned by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
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Coal – Not Wind – is Keeping Saskatchewan’s Lights On
While it’s not the same minute-by-minute data provided by the Alberta Electric System Operator for their grid, SaskPower has begun breaking down where its power is coming from on a daily basis. And the data from Oct. 3 and 4 showed wind generated an average of just...
57 Policy Proposals for Future Leaders to Help Make the Canadian Economy Soar
Executive Summary The various federal political parties are all promoting the policy agendas they believe will foster a sustainably high quality of life for all Canadians. It remains to be seen whether they will attain the success that they aim to achieve. In some...
Why Provinces Need Fiscal Constitutions
Ontario is dumping its Taxpayer Protection and Balanced Budget Act, but in Colorado a tougher law is conferring great benefits.
End of story?
Changing technology and falling book prices spell the end of the traditional libary according to the Economist Magazine.
Kiwi Cure for Adscam
It is simply not possible for a minister in New Zealand to indulge in the kind of political micro-meddling with which we are all too familiar in this country.
Opening and Balancing the Books in New Zealand
Former New Zealand Finance Minister Ruth Richardson outlines that country’s Fiscal Responsibility Act.
A Whitehall revolution?
Britain’s Labour Government pursures public sector reform.
Denmark: A Case Study in Social Democracy
The fully mature Danish welfare state is not achieving its ideals. Despite massive redistribution of wealth, problems with crime, health care and education persist.
How Government Saves Money
Once upon a time the government had a vast scrap yard in the middle of a desert. Parliament said: "Someone may steal from the scrap yard at night." So they created a night watchman position and hired a person (bilingual naturally) for the job. Then Parliament said:...
Martin divestment a dangerous precedent
Requiring individuals to divest business assets will cause business people and entrepreneurs to shun Canadian politics.
John Wilkins, Treasury Board of Canada
Frontier interviews an expert on Special Operating Agencies, autonomous business units within the public sector.