Ontario Conservative MP Vincent Ho asked a simple question in the House of Commons. He received a simple (yet horrifying) answer.

Ho asked, “With regard to the federal public service, how many employees had an annualized salary of over $150,000?” The Treasury Board told Ho the number was 12,971 which works out to 3.5 per cent of the total federal workforce.

If that doesn’t sound too bad to you, consider this: That is an 84 per cent increase in high-earners from just one year earlier. In 2024, there were just 7,201 federal civil servants making in excess of $150K. But wage settlements and generous raises nearly doubled the number — in one year!

And since Ho only asked about salaries, the Treasury Board response does not include bonuses which average over $17,000 per federal executive and

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