Boom, boom (VI)

Here is the same data as in Friday evening's posting, only pushed back to 1980 — the dawn of the StatsCan series — to provide the bigger, longer-term, picture.

Again, you are looking at a rough measure of the total provincial public-sector employment (provincial government, public schools, health care, and post-secondary eduction; local and federal government employment not included), as a share of total employment in each province.