Over 45,000 more federal bureaucrats received a six-figure salary than before the COVID-19 pandemic, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) says.
A total of 114,433 federal government employees received a salary of more than $100,000 in 2021. The number of federal government employees receiving more than $100,000 increased by 45,426 during the pandemic, according to access to information requests filed by the CTF. 
The CTF is now calling on Ottawa to develop a sunshine list, which offers transparency for Canadian taxpayers by providing public servants’ salaries, benefits, and severance information.
“We’re not all in this together,” CTF federal director Franco Terrazzano said in a Aug. 10 statement. “It’s not fair to ask the Canadians who lost their job or took a pay cut during the pandemic to pay higher taxes so the federal government can add thousands of highly paid bureaucrats.”…