Ontario's Financial Problems Are Ontario-Made
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Jobless Ontario factory workers don’t hold your breath – move west
On June 27, H.J. Heinz Co. turned out the lights on its 105-year-old Leamington, Ont. food processing plant, adding at least 500 more names to the ranks of jobless Ontarians who formerly earned a living through factory work.
Those newly unemployed workers helped push down the total number of manufacturing numbers in the country’s biggest province to their lowest level on record last month, Statistics Canada said Friday.
There are now fewer factory jobs in Ontario than at any point in the past 38 years, or since 1976 when Statistics Canada first began counting jobs in the sector.
“We’re actually lower than where we were at the tail end of the recession, which is really saying something,” Doug Porter, chief economist at Bank of Montreal said. “Manufacturing jobs continue to wither.”
READ MORE: For Canada’s tomato capital,
On June 27, H.J. Heinz Co. turned out the lights on its 105-year-old Leamington, Ont. food processing plant, adding at least 500 more names to the ranks of jobless Ontarians who formerly earned a living through factory work.
Those newly unemployed workers helped push down the total number of manufacturing numbers in the country’s biggest province to their lowest level on record last month, Statistics Canada said Friday.
There are now fewer factory jobs in Ontario than at any point in the past 38 years, or since 1976 when Statistics Canada first began counting jobs in the sector.
“We’re actually lower than where we were at the tail end of the recession, which is really saying something,” Doug Porter, chief economist at Bank of Montreal said. “Manufacturing jobs continue to wither.”
READ MORE: For Canada’s tomato capital,
