Federal Employment in Waterloo Region
Is our area being shortchanged?
Table 1: Employment within Census Metropolitan Areas, September 2010
Total Employment Federal Government Employment As A Proportion thousands % Ottawa–Gatineau 680.1 134.0 19.7 Kingston 75.2 6.9 9.1 Halifax 217.5 17.4 8.0 Victoria 179.7 10.3 5.7 St. John's 104.8 5.1 4.9 Moncton 73.6 3.2 4.3 Saguenay 70.5 2.7 3.8 Québec 417.9 14.8 3.5 Winnipeg 409.0 12.4 3.0 Regina 123.7 3.2 2.6 Greater Sudbury 82.0 2.1 2.6 Edmonton 614.9 14.1 2.3 Abbotsford–Mission 88.7 1.6 1.9 Saskatoon 142.4 2.6 1.8 Saint John 64.0 1.0 1.6 Thunder Bay 60.2 1.0 1.6 Vancouver 1,275.4 18.4 1.4 Windsor 153.3 2.1 1.3 Sherbrooke 87.0 1.1 1.3 Montréal 1,957.2 23.7 1.2 London 235.1 2.6 1.1 Hamilton 377.4 3.0 0.8 Toronto 3,011.5 22.6 0.8 Guelph 74.5 0.6 0.7 Trois-Rivières 68.2 0.4 0.7 Calgary 704.2 4.5 0.6 St. Catharines–Niagara 190.4 1.2 0.6 Peterborough 51.7 0.3 0.6 Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 265.5 1.2 0.4 Brantford 51.8 0.2 0.4 Kelowna 103.4 0.4 0.3 Barrie 99.6 0.2 0.2 Oshawa 193.9 0.2 0.1 Total 12,304.3 315.1 2.6
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From Kitchener-Waterloo | Member Since Dec 2009 | 5,677 Posts#204-07-2011 08:21 AMWaterloo Region is being shortchanged when it comes to federal employment. We have the 5th lowest proportion of federal government employees in the country.
I realize we don't have the location to be a military hub like Halifax or Victoria, but surely there's an office department that could be relocated to (or preferably the next expansion occur in) this area.
The Government of Canada is currently treating us as a small local market, rather than a provincial hub like Toronto, Hamilton or London. This mentality needs to change.
The extra 900 primary jobs that would bring us up to Tor-Ham-Ldn levels, plus the 100(0)'s of secondary spin-off jobs (ie. restaurants to dine in, retail to shop in), equates to at least $100-million a year for our local economy. Yet I never hear this issue being brought up by our Members of Parliament.
Where is our Federal Building like..
Hamilton?orLondon?
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