Montréal, October 5, 2020 – The study released today by the Centre for Productivity and Prosperity – Walter J. Somers Foundation (CPP) is intended mainly to take a closer look at employee compensation and numbers in Quebec municipalities, and give Quebeckers objective and accessible information allowing them to decide to what extent compensation is an issue in their municipality. “We considered this study all the more important at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic is putting significant pressure on public spending and a study released in 2016 – the Quebec Municipalities Rankings – had already found that over half the growth in spending by municipalities between 2010 and 2014 was directly attributable to spending on compensation,” says Robert Gagné, CPP Director and co-author of the study.

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