Statistics
The Myth of Free Collective Bargaining
As of 2021, approximately 74.1% of Canada’s union members work in the public sector. This is significantly higher than the private sector, where unionization rates are much lower. Of course that percentage doesn’t include private sector workers whose employers use significant assets owned by, or subsidized by the Canadian Government. Things like our major ports, … Read more
Canada’s Paperwork Costs and the GST
Just this morning I was on a video conference with a chartered accountant from India and our shared client and his local accounting technician. One of the issues was the complexity of Canada’s goods and services tax regime. It wasn’t supposed to be that way. I was around when the conservative government of the day … Read more
Representing Small Business
If we include the self-employed as ‘workers’, fully 98% of Canada’s private sector firms have less than 50 employees. Zero point one percent of firms have 500 employees or more. These large firms account for a little les than a third of private sector employment. They are large, hierarchical organizations. Clearly the senior managers of … Read more
Forget the One Percent
According to Oxford University’s OUR WORLD IN DATA, there’s significantly greater income inequality in the US than in all the other G7 countries. They have much more in common with countries under authoritarian rule. Russia and India (which is arguably democratic) exceed all countries in the European Union – as does China – in terms … Read more