Hard to explain what this is like to Americans, but the Canadian public sector and its employees are extremely smug. Imagine if every nurse, every bus driver, every teacher had the attitude of a Washington DC-based, Democratic senator's aide and you're approaching what it's like to deal with government workers in Canada.
There's this air of entitlement and moral superiority, as if their mission as public servants to righteously guide the retarded masses. These massive bureaucracies have these internal propaganda programs, where the basic gist is "if we let the public know what we're really doing, they would get mad because they're unsophisticated bozos and they don't understand that we know what's best for them".
Of course, the public sector is where competence goes to die and mediocrity seems to thrive...that's pretty normal for any government in any country, but the difference is that Canada's public sector has been massively fattened by decades of Liberal governments trying to simultaneously buy union votes and the loyalty of the permanent bureaucrat class (CRA, CRTC, etc.).
Case in point: in the States, an elementary school teacher makes maybe $60k a year if they're good. It's a good salary for solid, albeit simple, work. Do you know what they get paid here?
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These are not difficult jobs. It's not hard to show up for 6 1/2 hours a day with only children evaluating your job performance. It's almost impossible to get fired here because of the union. Put in a couple years and you're in the top 10% of Canadians--elementary school teachers should not be in the top 10% of salary brackets!
Government work used to trade salary for benefits and job security, but now they have all 3 and these jobs are given out according to your connections to the teachers' unions and their "diversity and equity" scoring chart. Research has consistently shown a 10-15% premium in public sector work for the same job in the private sector, and that's just in base salary. A couple years back, there were so many people trying to become teachers they were begging the universities to stop admitting people for B. Ed. programs.
That's before we get to the benefits and the pensions. The Ontario government matches the teacher's pension fund 2:1. Can you name another employer that will double your contributions? They're so overfunded that the Ontario Teacher's Pension Plan was featured on
Billions as an important investor for Axe Capital; that's how notoriously overstuffed they are.
Meanwhile, nurses
start at $67k and top out at $100k. That's before you include overtime, which the rest of us don't really get unless you're in an entry level position. The average US nurse makes somewhere between 60-70k across their career.
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Those are just two tiny examples of public largesse in Canada. The real problem is that they actually make much more than the average person here, which gives them an inflated sense of self-importance. The net result is that we have an incredibly wealthy public servant class and therefore
they think they must be smarter than everyone else because why else would they get paid so much for doing so little work?
Don't even get me started on the amount of grift going on with "government consulting" gigs; we waste literal billions on commissioning "studies" from thinktanks set up by assorted friends and family of our politicians. It's a very "you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours" kind of environment. Construction bids are another common grift; you'd think this was New Jersey or Chicago and not Canada...
Again, hard to explain to Americans what it's like, but I'm sure you all know someone who gets paid much more than they're worth and you see how it affects their attitude. Now imagine if 20% of all employed people were like that.