Unlike serveral days before, the media made no mention of “herding” in this news article—a word which, to me, would kind of be like accusing the person suggesting it of being a Nazi or something!
In this case, she reported on the economist’s stern suggestion that our nation strengthen its “labor mobility” (the proper term) and get people working full-time, all-year-round, where the jobs are. You know, almost like in sane-world—like other places, and like Canada used to be before it stopped being built, and started going into reverse, when it started being coddled and nannied by socialist liberals across the land who attempted, and continue to try, to turn our nation into a people totally reliant upon the nanny-state government.
The liberal-left attempts to decrease employment and increase reliance on government by making it easier to get unemployment insurance, for example.
Labour mobility ‘constipated,’ economist warns
Jacqueline Thorpe, Financial Post
Published: Wednesday, June 14, 2006There will be 450,000 jobs going begging in Alberta and British Columbia by 2011. There will also be 300,000 people under the age of 45 unemployed in Quebec and the Atlantic provinces.
The federal government should do more to bridge the gap between the two regions in a country which, despite boasting a 30-year low unemployment rate of 6.1%, has not significantly improved labour mobility for decades, an economist said yesterday.
“There’s never been a better time … to focus on improving geographic immobility in Canada,” said Dale Orr, managing director of Canadian economics at Global Insight in Toronto. “We’ve never seen such a range of job openings available going into the next four or five years or so.”
[…] Newfoundland has consistently had the highest rate of unemployment, which last month came in at 14.8% compared with 3.4% for Alberta. Quebec, which accounts for 23% of Canada’s labour force, has averaged 10% unemployment over the past 30 years, though it made some headway in May, with the rate dropping to 7.9%.
[…] While oil companies and retailers have brought recruiting missions east and labour mobility has improved from Newfoundland and other eastern provinces, Mr. Orr said the federal government should do more to encourage migration, including reforming the employment insurance program.
Currently, people in certain areas of high unemployment do not need to wait so long before qualifying for EI benefit. Instead of moving to areas that would offer steady, year-round employment, some workers work seasonally and use EI as an income support the rest of the year.
“OK, it’s got some income support but at the same time we’re absolutely constipated on this geographical mobility issue and there’s one reason why,” Mr. Orr said. “We’ve made that sacrifice.”
But in this article from several days ago (from the same Canwest Global News service—don’t they have email over there? Oh, actually, maybe that’s the problem…), and others just like them, it was all about the “herding”, which as I said, is to me tantamount to thinking like a Nazi. Perhaps that’s because it was a Conservative Party MP who suggested nothing of the sort.
MP denies plans to ‘herd’ Maritimers to Alberta
Mike Sadava, CanWest News Service; Edmonton Journal
Published: Saturday, June 10, 2006 Article toolsEDMONTON—A Conservative MP from northern Alberta has been accused of planning to herd Maritimers across the country to help fill the labour shortage in the booming oilsands city of Fort McMurray, Alta.
But Athabasca MP Brian Jean calls the accusation “absolutely offensive.”
He said Friday he was only trying to encourage Ottawa to provide information and transportation to unemployed easterners interested in finding work in other parts of Canada.
“We need not 25,000 people; we need 250,000 people,” Jean told the parliamentary committee on human resources development. “I want them from the rest of Canada. I don’t want them from around the world unless they’re going to be here permanently … Quite frankly, we need to make some changes I think some sort of transportation policy to make it available for the people that are unemployed in the rest of Canada should be looked at.”
But Liberal New Brunswick MP Jean-Claude D’Amours said it was “unbelievable” to even think of such a scheme.
[…] “I have never, ever said anything like herding Canadians, to force them to go to work. I said provide them the communications about what’s available and give them the help to go.”
But who cares what he said, right? Call it “herding” in the headline and throughout the “news” article, because a Liberal accused him of that! That way, it makes the Conservative fella look like a Nazi! Yay!
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