In reply to Harold Jarche » Born in a storm.

Thanks, Rob, I may qualify for a medical discharge ;-)

I also came across some interesting stats. As of Jan 2006 there were 16.3 million employed workers in Canada - 3.2 M in the public sector and 2.5 M self-employed. The remainder are employees in the private sector.

There are almost as many self-employed workers as there are in the public sector, yet the system is skewed in favour of those in unions (like CUPE) who get paid leave for jury duty.