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IN THIS ISSUE Meeting dates 1 President’s Message 1-3 Branch Election Notice 3 Executive members 4 From the Editors Desk 4 Comedy Corner 4 Luncheon News 5 Membership fee reminder 5 6 Reasons to drink water 6 Notice of Motion 7 Note to Phoners 7 Travel...Newsletter • February 17th, 2017
A December opinion piece in the National Post began with the line “The public sector is still getting rich off the taxes you're forced to pay.” It cited a Fraser Institute bulletin which claimed that, in 2015, employees from federal, provincial and local governments were, on aver- age, paid a 10.6% premium over their private sector counterparts. Un- fortunately, while the paper speaks bravely about control variables and regression analysis, its computational methodology is not revealed. Moreover, when we see something like a 39.5% premium paid in “protective service occupations”, we are left wondering about what pri- vately-owned police and fire services were used as a basis for compari- son.
