VANCOUVER—Government workers in Canada continue to enjoy higher wages and more generous benefits—including earlier retirement—than their private-sector counterparts, finds a new study by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank.
“With the federal government running a large deficit, and provincial and municipal governments across the country looking to control spending, bringing public sector compensation in line with the private sector would reduce financial pressure,” said Charles Lammam, director of fiscal studies at the Fraser Institute and co-author of Comparing Government and Private Sector Compensation in Canada.
