There was a study that looked at the rapidly rising housing prices in the GTA a year or so ago before we got into the exponential craziness of the last 9 months.

It attributed the escalating prices to four factors: low interest rates, shortage of housing stock, immigration, and  the large number of public sector workers in the GTA with excessive wages.

If you take any two public sector workers such as cop, fire fighter, nurse practitioner, teacher, OPG technician, hydro worker, paramedic, etc. and make them a couple suddenly you have an income in the top 5 % of family income. Nurse practitioner and cop $200K, teacher and fire fighter $180K, etc.

So while there have not been individual public sector workers with 30 % raises what we have seen over the last 5 years is a 30 % increase in the number of public sector workers. This is how the current corrupt Liberal government plans to win the next election again.

About 25% of Ontarians now work for the provincial government.