Provincial Government Salaries Gallop Ahead

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation releasing data from Stats Canada that shows there's a growing gap between the pay, pensions and benefits of government employees and what everybody else is getting. 

Kevin Lacey is the Federation's Atlantic Director and he tells CHSJ News salaries in the provincial government grew 14.3 per cent faster from July of 2001 to July of 2011 than what was paid to workers for private businesses. This was more than in any other province and three times the national average. 

The Federation has released figures showing the average salary in the public sector this year is $933.96  as opposed to $648.17 in the private sector.

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