So here we are in the wake of another unsuccessful tori government. What significance really have they had on our day to day lives? Some might say really nothing and they few things that the PC party has actually accomplished is so minute and insignificant by comparison to leading parties of the past. Some might also say that the PC party has set us lower middle class citizens into a new low of society. Life in Canada is not well and those who think it well are sorely misinformed and deeply and truly ignorant to life in Canada. Should it really come as a surprise that our leaders are the “elite” and wealthy citizens of our great nation? Not really. In the past 8 years our government has greatly ignored the plights of living in the western part of Canada....our cost of living had nearly doubled in the past 3 years, this means cost of food, cost of fuel, cost of healthcare, cost of utilities, cost of real-estate (ownership and rentals alike)has all gotten more expensive and harder to deal with. All these financial problems we have in the west are not relative to wages, the average working person in Saskatchewan only makes roughly 20 dollars per hour, In all honesty 20 dollars an hour is nowhere near enough to support a family, a mortgage, and other various depts. As well as a large cost of living. Conditions in Alberta and British Columbia are not much better. Logically an increase cost of living should come hand in hand with an increase in wages and salaries so we can comfortably adjust. Employees in dirty trades are also finding themselves being replaced by an immigration work force. This work force comes into the country under trained, under qualified, and inexperienced, employers take advantage of this by hiring out of this immigration pool and offering extremely low wages (sometimes provincial minimums), what this is doing is reversing 60 years of fighting for employee rights, it also shows us skilled tradesmen that we are under appreciated in a trade that requires us to receive sometimes up to 4+ years of training. Our society is slowly degrading into a state of poverty and unrest. Change in the west is needed and needed now, we can’t suffer another government under Priminister Harper and his Conservative party. What our country needs is someone who can expand his/her efforts to the entire country and not just the Eastern provinces, we need someone who is willing to support middle class Canadians in Parliament, we need someone who is willing to fight to stabilize our economy and preserve our Canadian way of living.
This might be a tad Biased
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I actually rather disagee with the premise that companies are hiring foreign workers simply to pay them lower wages.
Go to any city in Western Canada and employers are screaming for workers. I have had people who have no skills, no education nothing to offer an employer, that they wouldn't work for $15-$20/hr. Excuse me??? Why the hell not?? They have no skills; they're always looking for work because they've been canned from previous employment because they couldn't be bothered to show up on time or even show up.
There are tons of gov't employment programs out there (at least in Alberta) whereby you can get specific training and be paid while doing it. Nope, they couldn't be bothered.
The problem is not necessarily "society" but those in society that feel that the rest of us owes them a living!!
JMO
Go to any city in Western Canada and employers are screaming for workers. I have had people who have no skills, no education nothing to offer an employer, that they wouldn't work for $15-$20/hr. Excuse me??? Why the hell not?? They have no skills; they're always looking for work because they've been canned from previous employment because they couldn't be bothered to show up on time or even show up.
There are tons of gov't employment programs out there (at least in Alberta) whereby you can get specific training and be paid while doing it. Nope, they couldn't be bothered.
The problem is not necessarily "society" but those in society that feel that the rest of us owes them a living!!
JMO
Let's see.
We don't have a PC government, it's a Conservative government. And you can't blame them for the past 8 years.
$20/hour is plenty to live well here in NB.
Your post is full of blather, backed up by hot air. The economy of Alberta is so hot, anyone who can drool and stand up at the same time can get a job, as long as they want to. Even in NB, the people who don't have a job, don't have one for a reason. They either don't want a job, or they don't want to become qualified to have a job.
We don't have a PC government, it's a Conservative government. And you can't blame them for the past 8 years.
$20/hour is plenty to live well here in NB.
Your post is full of blather, backed up by hot air. The economy of Alberta is so hot, anyone who can drool and stand up at the same time can get a job, as long as they want to. Even in NB, the people who don't have a job, don't have one for a reason. They either don't want a job, or they don't want to become qualified to have a job.
What's the difference? Progressive, regressive or Reformed Alliance of Rabid Rightists, its all the same thing: Policies and manpower supplied by the failed Ontario Mike Harris Progressive Conservatives
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Wasn't that one of Harper's priorities last election? I don't recall it even being brought to the table....
Tomorrow Wall Street may solve the day care deficit. It has been promised far back in the misty murky Canadian past and never materialized except in the gaseous or frothy ejecta of a thousand mile chain of useless political twits, it's like peace, a good but very expensive pipedream fed to the stunned year after year after year after year etc; maybe this year we will get tough on crime and straighten out our wayward youth.
How much money did the Liberals steal from 'us' in the sponsorship scandal? Refresh please. And someone is actually interested in putting them back in government, they
are thieves and criminals. Why is that so easily forgotton. That was our money.
are thieves and criminals. Why is that so easily forgotton. That was our money.
Couldn't agree more. If our government quit wasting money on stupid things like pennies, foreign aid, or whatever, we could have that program. What are some other things we could cut?:?:
There answer was to cancel assistance for daycares in exchange for sending out $100 monthly cheques to parents of kids under 7 years old. A number of daycares have closed. Some have reduced their operations, laying off staff. Others have increased fees. It hasn't done much to address the big picture.
I as well as some of my close freinds have lost jobs to lower bidding forign workers, there are a few local companies who have brought in workers from some countries as serbia, russia, georgia, kazakstan, etc. and their pay scale is right around 9 dollars an hour, as far as my current wage goes it is no where near enough to support myself and my family as well as keep a roof over our heads. I also didn't say a thing about the bad apple, I'm talking about those of us who do have certification and training in the feilds we work, I'm talking about those of us who have earned the right to call ourselves tradesmen.
It is coming to a scenario where opportunities south of the border are going to look more and more tempting.