When Stephen Harper claims that Canada has 1.3 million more jobs, he's correct. We aren't growing jobs as quickly as our population is growing people who need jobs, though, so the proportion of Canadians who actually have jobs is at its lowest since three years before he took power. http://ca.reuters.com/ar…/businessNews/idCAKBN0G81BT20140808 Did you notice that article also talked about full time jobs vanishing and part time jobs growing in their place? Not all jobs are created equal. Some might feed your family, while others mean working poverty without benefits or security. The quality of Canadian jobs hasn't been this lousy for 25 years, and this isn't some progressive journal claiming this, that assessment comes from a major bank. http://www.pressprogress.ca/…/cibc-says-canadian-job-qualit… Ontario’s labour market, for example, has shifted from a workforce of steady full-time jobs to shaky part-time positions. http://www.thestar.com/…/ontarios_job_market_undergoing_sei… Barely half of people working in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton areas now have permanent, full-time jobs that provide benefits and stability. Everyone else is working in situations that are part-time, vulnerable or insecure in some way. This includes a growing number of temporary, contract and on-call positions. Jobs without benefits. Jobs with uncertain futures. This significant rise in precarious employment is a serious threat – not only to the collective prosperity of the region, but also to the social fabric of communities. This is new, a radical change in recent years, not in any way what we, or economists, would call a normal state of affairs. The people now experiencing precarious employment are not doing so because they don't apply themselves, but because non-precarious employment has been yanked from beneath their feet. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/…/half-of-to…/article9003680/ Seventy-two per cent of net new jobs created between 2008 and 2013 fall into the precarious or underemployed category. http://www.thestar.com/…/why_canadas_job_market_hasnt_recov… Even the government's own internal documents frankly admit that the so-called Canadian dream of upward mobility is now a myth. http://ca.news.yahoo.com/middle-class-dreams-quot-myth-quot… And the consistently right wing chamber of commerce is also finally admitting up front that the opportunities available for people to drag themselves out of poverty are drying up, with an economy that grows new jobs slower than population increases, and that mostly produces part time insecure jobs in a single province. http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/…/canada-job-market-2013_n_490… Wages, meanwhile, no longer mean "getting paid for your hard work enough to be able to live on." https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10202823746610500 ~by Michael Nabert https://www.facebook.com/michael.nabert.knows
Elections Canada warns staff to be on the lookout for "voter suppression tactics" as a result of Harper's "(Un)Fair Elections Act" http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-federal-election-voter-suppression-1.3236839
Have you noticed that Harper isn't talking about his intentions to join our country into the Trans Pacific Partnership, a secretive corporate driven trade and socio-economic treaty that will change the way we are governed...... Before you vote Conservative, do a bit of study on this. http://canadians.org/tpp
When Stephen Harper claims that Canada has 1.3 million more jobs, he's correct. We aren't growing jobs as quickly as our population is growing people who need jobs, though, so the proportion of Canadians who actually have jobs is at its lowest since three years before he took power.
ReplyDeletehttp://ca.reuters.com/ar…/businessNews/idCAKBN0G81BT20140808
Did you notice that article also talked about full time jobs vanishing and part time jobs growing in their place? Not all jobs are created equal. Some might feed your family, while others mean working poverty without benefits or security. The quality of Canadian jobs hasn't been this lousy for 25 years, and this isn't some progressive journal claiming this, that assessment comes from a major bank.
http://www.pressprogress.ca/…/cibc-says-canadian-job-qualit…
Ontario’s labour market, for example, has shifted from a workforce of steady full-time jobs to shaky part-time positions.
http://www.thestar.com/…/ontarios_job_market_undergoing_sei…
Barely half of people working in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton areas now have permanent, full-time jobs that provide benefits and stability. Everyone else is working in situations that are part-time, vulnerable or insecure in some way. This includes a growing number of temporary, contract and on-call positions. Jobs without benefits. Jobs with uncertain futures. This significant rise in precarious employment is a serious threat – not only to the collective prosperity of the region, but also to the social fabric of communities. This is new, a radical change in recent years, not in any way what we, or economists, would call a normal state of affairs. The people now experiencing precarious employment are not doing so because they don't apply themselves, but because non-precarious employment has been yanked from beneath their feet.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/…/half-of-to…/article9003680/
Seventy-two per cent of net new jobs created between 2008 and 2013 fall into the precarious or underemployed category.
http://www.thestar.com/…/why_canadas_job_market_hasnt_recov…
Even the government's own internal documents frankly admit that the so-called Canadian dream of upward mobility is now a myth.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/middle-class-dreams-quot-myth-quot…
And the consistently right wing chamber of commerce is also finally admitting up front that the opportunities available for people to drag themselves out of poverty are drying up, with an economy that grows new jobs slower than population increases, and that mostly produces part time insecure jobs in a single province.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/…/canada-job-market-2013_n_490…
Wages, meanwhile, no longer mean "getting paid for your hard work enough to be able to live on."
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10202823746610500
~by Michael Nabert
https://www.facebook.com/michael.nabert.knows
you forgot to mention temp. foreign worrkers
ReplyDeleteElections Canada warns staff to be on the lookout for "voter suppression tactics" as a result of Harper's "(Un)Fair Elections Act" http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-federal-election-voter-suppression-1.3236839
ReplyDeleteHave you noticed that Harper isn't talking about his intentions to join our country into the Trans Pacific Partnership, a secretive corporate driven trade and socio-economic treaty that will change the way we are governed...... Before you vote Conservative, do a bit of study on this. http://canadians.org/tpp
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