The Blue Pages (II)
Let's assume, for argument's sake, that the fact that 70% of the provincial government phone numbers are in St. John's telephone exchanges accurately reflects the distribution of provincial public servants. (This is a working assumption; anyone in the provincial government is more than welcome, indeed encouraged, to come forward with hard statistics.)
70%, just in metro St. John's alone.
At the federal level, you would have to combine the federal public service labour forces of the twenty largest urban areas in Canada — Toronto, Montréal, Vancouver, Ottawa-Gatineau, Calgary, Edmonton, Québec, Hamilton, Winnipeg, London, Kitchener, St. Catharines-Niagara, Halifax, Oshawa, Victoria, Windsor, Saskatoon, Regina, St. John's, and Sherbrooke — before you would accumulate 70% of the federal government's employees.
Really: Harris Centre, you oughta do a big fat study on "provincial presence". That's a public policy question, innit?
posted by WJM @ 7:05 PM
2 Comments:
Wallace:
I tire of your relentless comparisons of Newfoundland-Labrador vs. NL-Ottawa. They really are apples and oranges, aren't they? Are there any major urban centres in Labrador? You could compare St. John's to Carbonear, for example, and come up with similar inequities. I think your sense of hypocrisy is way out of line. That being said, I'm sure you will not hesitate to cook up some per-capita statistics to mercilessly blow me out of the water. (sigh)
Peter.... Whittle?
Let us bow our heads:
“It’s high time that Labradorians, instead of feeling like someone else’s treasure trove, started feeling like an integral part of our province. We cannot expect fair treatment from Ottawa if we don’t practise what we preach.”
The Word of Our Dan. It is written.
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