Canada's Economy is BOOMING

JLM

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The price of oil goes up and down regardless of pipelines. If you weren't a complete moron, you might be able to wrap your head around that.


If you weren't such a complete f**king MORON you might start listening to what your intellectual superiors are telling and keep your f**king trap closed for awhile.....................TWIT!
 

tay

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If you weren't such a complete f**king MORON you might start listening to what your intellectual superiors are telling and keep your f**king trap closed for awhile.....................TWIT!
Who's your intellectual superior?
 

Curious Cdn

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Harry Edison, the local Greengrocer, Izzy Einstein, who ran the kosher deli, Henry Ford, the neighbourhood postman, Alexander Fleming the nasty Scottish bank manager who forclosed on the homestead ...
 

Cannuck

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If you weren't such a complete f**king MORON you might start listening to what your intellectual superiors are telling and keep your f**king trap closed for awhile.....................TWIT!

My intellectual supperiors have told me you're a moron. I accept their view.

I think I've outlived a lot of them.

You haven't outlived 99.999999% of them.
 

mentalfloss

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Financial Post: Canada’s surprise job surge signals economy turning corner after two hard years

OTTAWA — Canadian job growth unexpectedly surged in January as hiring in the service sector helped the labour market build on its momentum from the latter part of 2016, suggesting the economy was finding its footing.

Canada added 48,300 jobs last month, Statistics Canada said on Friday, exceeding economists’ expectations for employment growth to be unchanged.

I think it’s sending a pretty convincing signal that the economy is starting to improve

Full-time positions increased by 15,800. Although that was outpaced by a 32,400 increase in part-time work, economists were encouraged by the decline in the unemployment rate to 6.8 per cent, even as the participation rate edged up.

https://www.google.ca/amp/business....mployment-rate-falls-to-6-8/amp?client=safari
 

JLM

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You fukks pay yourselves too high of a wage and your profit margins are out of line. You're almost as greedy as America. Trim your fookin fat cat lifestyles.


I think you hit the nail on the head, Ludlow, although I don't think the tradesman are paid too high, it's the level above them. Nowadays it's not uncommon to pay $130 an hour for labour while the guy doing it is paid $15 - $30 an hour! My son is currently working on an assembly line building Big Foot Campers for $15 an hour.
 

Bar Sinister

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Constant coalition formation with fringe 5% parties holding the balance of power?

No, thank you.

Why not? it works quite well in mature democracies. And it worked very well during the 1960s when neither the Liberals or Conservatives could get a majority. I really haven't noticed that the majority governments since then have acted in a particularly democratic manner. It also works very well in civic governments where councilors of a variety of political stripes work together in harmony. What many Canadians are tired of and I am certainly one of them is parties coming to power with 40% of the vote and then governing as if they were elected by a massive majority.

And I quarrel with your 5% holding the balance of power. If we had used proportional representation in the last election we would have a left leaning coalition representing 65% of the Canadian population and that is a great deal more democratic than 40%. It would also prevent regional parties like the BQ (remember them?) which once held official opposition status in the House of Commons (1993) despite not electing a single candidate outside of Quebec.
 

Cannuck

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I think you hit the nail on the head, Ludlow, although I don't think the tradesman are paid too high, it's the level above them. Nowadays it's not uncommon to pay $130 an hour for labour while the guy doing it is paid $15 - $30 an hour! My son is currently working on an assembly line building Big Foot Campers for $15 an hour.

There isn't much you can do about genetics. Tell him to hang in there for me
 

taxslave

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True. ANd you and the rest of the freeloaders are about to get tossed out and the working people will get their economy back.

Why not? it works quite well in mature democracies. And it worked very well during the 1960s when neither the Liberals or Conservatives could get a majority. I really haven't noticed that the majority governments since then have acted in a particularly democratic manner. It also works very well in civic governments where councilors of a variety of political stripes work together in harmony. What many Canadians are tired of and I am certainly one of them is parties coming to power with 40% of the vote and then governing as if they were elected by a massive majority.

And I quarrel with your 5% holding the balance of power. If we had used proportional representation in the last election we would have a left leaning coalition representing 65% of the Canadian population and that is a great deal more democratic than 40%. It would also prevent regional parties like the BQ (remember them?) which once held official opposition status in the House of Commons (1993) despite not electing a single candidate outside of Quebec.

The bloc becoming opposition had more to do with the grossly disproportionate distribution of ridings than our voting system. But it is one more aspect that requires change.
Civic governments should not be permitted to have parties. Just look at the disaster mayor moonbeam and his cohorts have made of Vancouver. Civic governments should be all independents.