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Originally Posted by Jacks
Wow, if that's true that is scary.
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It's not true. Not even close. Per Statscan (2011 figures), the number of people working for Ontario provincial government agencies was 370,432 out of a total population of 12.8M, or slightly less than 3% of Ontario's population.
Source:
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tabl...ovt62d-eng.htm
Edit: the figure is higher if you also include university and college staff (which are partially funded by the feds) and local school boards. If we include both of those, then the number of provincial employees was 510k in 2011, or about 4% of the population.