As federal spending on so-called infrastructure has increased dramatically over the last 25 to 30 years in Canada, we've also seen a very dramatic increase in the personnel budgets of the municipalities.
One would ask what one has to do with the other. It's clear to me that what's happening is that federal spending is displacing spending that would otherwise have happened, and then municipalities are taking the freed-up money and using it to expand their personnel. Does that sound like a realistic hypothesis to you?