Conflating the issue; I didn't claim teachers should be paid as well as doctors, but if they're producing the third-best students globally, yet being paid worse than teachers in the rest of Canada, I'd say that's more than a little unfair - in fact, by Right-leaning economic arguments of paying a premium for better workers and products, it makes no sense at all. There's a reason there's a deficit of teachers, whether or not it's as large as the BCTF says it is - hundreds of jobs are unfilled because the wages in BC are substantially worse than elsewhere, all while cost of living is much higher.