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Justin Trudeau says Canada needs a manufacturing strategy
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Justin Trudeau says
that Canada needs a Manufacturing Strategy
Canada really needs a Manufacturing Strategy.
July 16, 2015, a comment that follows the article Canadian Economy Heading For Recession: Banks shocked me very much.
William Wallace Sam 14 days ago
“Are you kidding? Every Canadian business has been sold off to foreign multinational corporations. Our money is being created and controlled by private bankers. Can't you hear, as Ross Perot would say, that ‘giant sucking sound’"?
"That's the sound of Canada's wealth and your children's future being sucked up by the people who have rigged the system to make sure every possible dollar is plucked out of your hands and placed into theirs."
"No one's been standing on guard for Canada for a long, long time."
For the rational people, who see the reality of Canada will be painful. I felt that William Wallace is in disappointed crying.
Maybe no one noticed that even more frightening is the supporting source of pension system is collapsing.
It said that retirement - the years following the end of work is the second spring of life, since that we do not have to busy for making a living, and with plenty of free time for enjoying life.
However, in developed country Canada, the second spring of life seems only a beautiful fantasy. “‘they are better prepared for death than for life in the years following the end of work.’”
The comment may be for specific group those who faced financial difficulties rather than for all, but it is still shocking enough. In current Canada, I think, there are few people would believe that is true.
The comment was not a joking nonsense, due to it was derived from the great many realities by one financial planner of Alberta couple who are well insight into the sad life situation of Canadian retired people from their work experiences.
Talk to here, people may easily think of Canada Pension Plan (CPP), it holds the responsibility of pension funds and the investment for profit. Canadian citizen over 18 years of age, the part of working income is stored here for the life of retirement when our aged cannot make livings any more.
In Canada, the pension system has been running well, with a universal health care system, so that there few people worry about the retirement life. However, the situation is not well as that of people expected.
The sadness is that the concern is not just limited in retirement life aged Canadian, but also, the lives of the people who are in the prime age are also in decline, due to that for years, in Canada, the businesses are closing, the jobs ate losing, the Canadian dollar is depreciating, the prices of daily necessities are rising.....
That what Greek people are suffering in Greece may disrupt the peaceful mood of most of Canadians.
As one of the cradles of human civilization, the Rich Greece, their people are suffering difficult life caused by Sovereign Debt Crisis. Under the crisis, the most tragic is the elderly who have lost their ability to make livings and have to depending on the pensions.
There are reports that Greek People Find Food in Garbage Bins and Greek Pensioner shoots himself to refuse to search for food in garbage. The sadness of Greeks provides a warning for Canadians.
Canada and Greece have similar political and economic model, the Greek crisis may also occur in Canada. As Canadian, we must consider that how to avoid such tragedy happening, especially that how to guarantee a decent life of our retirement.
Canada Pension Plan - CPP is facing threats
Inflation and over developed financial economy is looting our hard earnings
The inflation, financial crises, and over money supply under monetary easing policy are constantly plundering our hard earned money to make it lost value.
The potential threat is that over developed financial economy more and more deviated from the promotion of material wealth production, that ever-changing forms of financial derivatives for money-raking are crazily looting real economy in border-less, which squeezing the profit of the real economy too narrow the margins to survive.
One people created material wealth to be plundered by ten people
For the overdeveloped financial economy, the professor of History of Harvard University, Niall Ferguson who has made an introduction.
In the start of the documentary The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of The World that written and presented by the professor introduces with that: "In our time, we've witnessed the zenith of global finance. 2006，the world total economic output was worth around $47 trillion, that's 47 followed by 12 zeroes, the total value of stock and bond markets was roughly $110 trillion, more than twice the size. And the amount outstanding of the strange new financial life form known as derivatives was $473 trillion, 10 times larger."
It was clear that was financial derivatives to have triggered Financial Crisis 2008. We can intuitively understand that, in 2006 world, each people created material wealth to be plundered by more than 10 people.
The root for such an irrational is from the irrational of politics. Enjoying privilege-driven democracy has been leading to irrational people and even metal defectives dominating our world, the governance of human society is increasingly in favor of the extreme exerting of mental defectives, and the free play of unscrupulous plunder, in lesser conducive to the efforts of rational people, and the creation of material wealth.
CPP will be negatively impacted by TPP
April 17 2015, I wrote article Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade negotiation is doomed to Fail, in which I cited some reports regarding the progress of TPP negotiation. I excerpt some as follow.
April 01, 2015 article New TPP leak reveals how we're trading our sovereignty for cheap tariffs: “WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange issued a dire warning about the agreement: 'The TPP has developed in secret an unaccountable supranational court for multinationals to sue states. This system is a challenge to parliamentary and judicial sovereignty.”
Feb 25, 2014 article The Plan Behind the TransPacific Partnership to Destroy National Sovereignty: "The historical record is clear: what are misleadingly called "free trade agreements" were never really about trade. Their goal is to render independent nation states null and void, and hand power over to unaccountable, transnational corporatist authorities."
The article provides the excerpts of the Congressional Record from 1967 hearing - The Future of U.S. Foreign Trade Policy: "The widespread development of the multinational corporation is one of our major accomplishments in the years since the war, though its meaning and importance have not been generally understood. For the first time in history man has at his command an instrument that enables him to employ resource flexibility to meet the needs of peoples all over the world", for "fulfill its full potential, the multinational corporation must be able to operate with little regard for national boundaries - or, in other words, for restrictions imposed by individual national governments."
“Now, Americans further improved the idea in free trade deal TPP to make multinationals easily operation and thus will certainly easily control the economy of a country, and thus, may easily cause social unrest, even to overthrow the governments of stable governed countries.”
As a member country of TPP, the economy of Canada will inevitably be the victim of U.S. multinationals. As an indirect result, Canada Pension Plan – CPP will be negatively impacted.
When my writing this article, July 26, 2015, I read a report that TPP chief negotiators of 12 countries have gethered in Hawaii for the upcoming new round of negotiations. But, I'm still convinced that the negotiations will not be success. Because of the agreement allows private speculators to access to social wealth that controlled by government, while the government will be poorer.
The base of Canada pension plan is collapsing with the firms declining
Follow information was Googled from the Internet; it may be not accurate, only for a general reference.
Canada pension plan 2014:
Total Assets in USD billion was 1,526, and the % GDP in USD billion was 85.1%.
Defined benefit pension plan 96%
Defined contribution pension plan 4%
Equity is 41%, Bonds 35%; other 22%; and Cash 2%.
In general, there 96% of our pension is from the defined benefit pension plan - the employer-sponsored retirement plan.
It shows that business is the base of Canada Pension Plan.
If the businesses are closed, the employers who are funding our pension will also disappear, the base of Canada Pension Plan will be is collapsed, and this is the reality that is in happening.
The CPP-Sponsors are disappearing with the Firms’ Declining
Feb 13, 2013, Canada’s business development bank published survey report thatCanada's Mid-Sized Firms in Decline: Canada’s mid-sized companies have declined by 17% – 9,370 to 7,814 – from 2006 to 2010, the manufacturing sector as the hardest hit. More than half (from 2,807 to 1,381) of its mid-sized firms vanished between 2001 and 2010.
Feb 16, 2015, CBC News Economics Reporter Peter Armstrong who revealed disappointing reality of the manufacturing of Canada by article Why southwestern Ontario's manufacturing rebound is missing.
Southwestern Ontario's past is well known. The region was the industrial heartland of Canada. It was here they made everything from cars to ketchup. For a long time, this manufacturing model worked. It served people in the region remarkably well.
With the price of oil dramatically reduced and the Canadian dollar heading lower, the manufacturing should grow up as usual, but, this time, for the most part, that growth hasn't emerged. Even as the dollar hit 78 cents, Canada's manufacturing industry continued to struggle. The usual manufacturing model has been showing cracks for years now.
Jan. 13, 2015, the article Canada Pension Funding Declined in 2014 report that: The collective funding ratio of Canada's defined-benefit pension plans declined by 2.7 percentage points in 2014.
Mexico is quickly and permanently replacing Canada in manufacturing
Feb 10, 2015, the article Canada falls to Mexico in share of North American auto output reported that: Canada’s share of North American production of cars and light trucks has fallen to 14.1 per cent in 2014 from more than 17 per cent in 2009. Mexico, with 18.9 per cent of production, has overtaken Canada, formerly a powerhouse in the industry. The falling investment by the automakers in Canada means it is losing its share of production to both the U.S. and Mexico.
Canadian auto investment almost stagnant but, automakers have made big investments in Mexico, where wages are in the $8 an hour range, compared with close to $40 in Canada.
Mexico is an attractive place for production and has been since NAFTA began.
The outlook for Canadian auto production is “clouded,” despite a falling dollar which will make production cheaper.
Canada's traditional manufacturing is permanently losing.
This trend can only be more and more intense, because the undeveloped countries will continue to improve their policies and related facilities for more conducive to the development of foreign manufacturers. And also, after working from foreign manufacturers, their nationals will be trained as skilled industrial army from unskilled peasants, and their local manufacturers will quickly grow up to form new competitive forces.
In overall, the Canadian economy is mainly composed of manufacturing industry and service industry, and manufacturing is the basis of the service sector.
So that is not only the Canada Pension Plan, even the economy of Canada is facing the key point of Life or Death.
Greece's economic woes warns Canada
It said that Greece is a developed country with high standards of living and high Human Development Index, the diligent and wise Greeks once created economic miraclein the period of 1950 to 1973, the economy grew by an average of 7.7%, second in the world only to Japan.
No one would be expected that such a wealthy country, Greece actually took place thesovereign debt crisis.
It is disaster that Capitalism Riches individual by Pooring government
In view of reported number of the Greek Capital flight in recent years under the pressure of the sovereign debt crisis, in Greece, it is not short in money at all; it is enough to help Greeks to go through the difficult time. However, the money belongs to some individual, rather than the government.
The sad fact shows that, no matter how wealthy of some nationals are, it does not help the government of the nation; the government will still be in poor with no dignity, the vast majority of the nationals will live in hardship.
Only the government of the nation is in rich, their nationals can enjoy a dignified life.
The biggest problem of Capitalism is that people inborn instinct driven free market economy promotes some individual Rich while the Government is too Poor to fulfill some functions as Government should be.
Canada has same Populism Democracy as that of destroying Greece
June 28, 2015, morning, I read a report that Greece debt crisis: Tsipras announces bailout referendum, it said that Greece's prime minister has called a referendum on 5 July for voters to decide whether to accept a bailout deal offered by international creditors.
The report attached a photo of Greece's Prime Minister Alexi Tsipras, his haggard and worried eyes made me a sense of sadness.
The Government is the reliance and the hope of their citizen. However, that almost bankrupted government of Greece has no ability to fulfill its holy obligations to meet the reliance and hope of their citizen.
Why, once a cradle of human civilization, the great Greek, a rich country, has descended into national beggar in begging for help.
It said that the populist politics destroyed Greece.
Speaking to here, I think of my long question regarding democracy, it is in general, rather than for Greece.
As earlier as 507 B.C., the Athenian leader Cleisthenes introduced a political system of democracy, today it has been much admired world widely.
However, there are rare people question that those who eagerly consume too much time and effort to have obtained the favor of voters, whether have time and interest in depth study of difficult social and economic problems. The Government composed of such people, whether is able to rationally formulate right policies in favor of national Destiny.
The trouble is that there few voters have the ability to consider the long-term development of the country, that pursuit of long-term national benefits, in most cases, is at the expense of short-term interests of some people.
The vast majority of the people can only share with the fruits, but, lack of vision for sharing to explore that how to achieve it.
As a pride of democracy that people who are eligibility to vote all can run campaign for a political position to rule a country without basic prerequisites in ensuring the quality of the candidates. Such an irrational rule let those who have the high quality for governing society to stay at arm's length.
Please check the background of the elected councilors of the government in all levels world widely, there are few of them in economy and industry, which is essential for making a rational decision for well developing economy, but more of them are keen in charity, which is better fitting the wishes of the populist voters.
Once such people gain the power of State Apparatus, the all thought of them will be that how to keep and enjoy the political privileges. They would endlessly spend taxpayers' money to get voters favor, at the expense of the long-term interests of the country.
They will never have a sense for how to well develop economy and never care the decline of the economy.
The biggest problem of Democracy is that irrational commitment-driven elected populist government has lost the function as the State Apparatus in favor of enforcing the society toward rational long-term development path for the sake of vast majority, due to in this process; it would inevitably hurt the interest of a minority, which may cause the loss of voters.
Those were the root reasons that Greece went into today.
Despite that Greece's plight is caused due to the sovereign debt crisis that seem mainly in some European countries, however, the factors that caused the crisis are also existing in Canada, only in more or less, due to the similar inborn defects in political and economic structures.
The tragedy what is taking place in Greece is a mirror for Canadians. We must try to mitigate or eliminate the bad influence of those adverse factors.
I deeply believed that Canada needs a manufacturing strategy is rational direction, however, Justin Trudeau seems has no a proper feasible idea yet.
Following is some of my writings on my Blog Frank'sWritings(176).
Management is the Art of Playing Human Nature
How to revive Canada's non-energy manufacturing?
Justin Trudeau a rational leader of Canadian Liberal Party
The Fatal DNA of RIM & Canadian Enterprises
Over-heated real estate market is ruining Canadian economy from Japan mirroring Canada
Why did Keynesian fail in saving Japan's economy?
Fast-growing Online Shopping forces Business to Reenact Marketing Strategy
Gov-funded R&D center boosts Taiwan as one of Four Little Dragons
My view on Entrepreneur and Enterprise inspired by Peter Shoore
My View on the Argument of Social Polarization
Deng Xiaoping and Economic reform of China
Why am I concerning the corporate management?
--- Frank July 28 2015 in Waterloo, On. Ca.
Justin Trudeau
says Canada needs a manufacturing strategy
CBC News Posted: Jul , : PM ET Last Updated: Jul , : PM ET
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/justin-trudeau-says-canada-needs-a-manufacturing-strategy-.
The federal government should be putting Canada's manufacturing potential in the spotlight, says Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau, who believes the country needs to have a national manufacturing strategy to help boost job prospects in places southwestern Ontario.
"We need to make sure that we're pitching Canadians' advantage over other countries to draw in global investment," he told CBC Radio's Afternoon Drive in an interview.
Trudeau said the federal government has failed to take the steps needed to allow the country's manufacturing sector force to reach its full potential.
"We have an extraordinarily skilled and educated workforce with a capacity to be creative and to work hard. There is a tremendous opportunity for Canada to play a role in the world's supply chains, we just have to have a government that's dedicated to that," said Trudeau.
"And unfortunately, the current government put all its eggs in the same baskets in terms of counting on high oil prices and wasn't making the kinds of investments that were going to ensure jobs here in southwestern Ontario and elsewhere."
Trudeau also said he believes that the automotive sector will continue to be a key industry in the near future, and one in which Canada has "tremendous advantages."
The Liberal leader said Canada should be seen as a place where goods are manufactured responsibly with a high degree of quality.
"I think that's something that the global marketplace is looking for more and more. We just have to do a better job of selling Canada and selling Canadian manufacturing," he added.
Ed Holder, the Conservative MP for London West, issued a statement Thursday attacking Trudeau for his "high-tax policies" and pointing to the Liberal leader's statements on manufacturing during a prior visit to southwestern Ontario.
When Trudeau visited London, Ont., this past January, he said, "The people of southwestern Ontario are amazingly resilient and have demonstrated that moving beyond manufacturing-based employment is something they're willing to do."
He then also said that "as is the case for so many parts of the country, they need a partner in Ottawa."
On Thursday, Holder said this "will be part of his high-tax plan on Canadians" and Trudeau's policies "will devastate our region's manufacturing sector, further proof that he is just not ready to be prime minister."
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GaryNelson Guest month ago
@SusanDe ... We have more
raw material than just about any other country but who can afford us when
unions are running the industry?
The only people unions help are in
China, Mexico etc., when we have to export raw materials and Canadian
businesses outsource manufacturing.
If we can't compete we can't
manufacture.
silversaab Guest
So called free trade agreements are more about the free flow of capital than the free flow of goods. Canada need to re-establish a strong manufacturing base before all we are is a seller of raw materials at third world prices.
month ago
proportional over partisan: balance sheets don't lie Guest
@silversaab - jesus, no they are not. We need those for market access. If that's still the NDP thinking then we can't allow "Dutch" Mulcair to take over.
month ago
David in Alberta Guest
@silversaab That would be the solution picked by the oil companies. Cheap labour without any protections (Conservatives provided that). Lack of oversight and lack of regulation (Conservatives provided that). Lack of vision and lack of knowledge (Generously provided for in the Conservative cabinet and backbenches).
UserXYZABC Guest
@silversaab How? What is your solution? Any idea? Anything at all? Have you noticed that the low dollar, our high education level, our high level of communications systems, great roads, clean water, stable electricity, and stable government etc haven't done anything to make us a world class manufacturing country no matter who is in power???? Maybe the solutions are in less government regulation(at least streamlined), free trade between provinces and maybe competition in the banking system.
Mr. Dooley Guest
@silversaab PM Chretien signed the NAFTA deal with Pres Clinton to
include Mexico. Mulroney and Reagan signed for just Canada/USA to become
partners.
So the Liberals equal blame for this
issue.
L Emenopee Guest
This country has a surplus of people who would love a steady,
well-paying manufacturing job.
Many are marking time doing entry level retail while they wait.
Yet, in spite of the worker surplus, all three mainstream parties are committed
to importing millions of foreign unemployed in the coming decades. How about
including that in the 'strategy'?
correct answer Guest
@L Emenopee you missed a word
importing millions of foreign "unskilled" unemployed
RustBeltON Guest @silversaab
Yes, by "manufacturing" again, we can also stop the "Outsourcing" blood-letting that the Conervatives have shamefully allowed
RustBeltON Guest
@proportional over partisan
what good are Free Trade aggreements that just leave us as
"fetcher's" forever ???
RustBeltON Guest
@UserXYZABC
So what do you have against Manufacturing, which will obviously be good for
Canadian Banking, Competition, Trade, Jobs. ???
...that's what I thought,
Your phoney denials are duly noted now.
RustBeltON Guest
@silversaab is right.
"Canada need to re-establish a strong manufacturing base before all we are
is a seller of raw materials at third world prices."
ANYBODY who disagree's with this is Anti-Canadian, to say the least.
Vampire-two-three Guest
@silversaab "before all we are is a seller of raw materials at
third world prices."
But that's EXACTLY what Harper and his corporate masters want...
Angus "The Gay Redneck" MacNeil Guest
@RustBeltON
Your statement and calling anyone who disagrees with your POV sounds pretty anti-Canadian to me.
Carl Guest
@silversaab
Free trade IS THE GD PROBLEM. BIG PROBLEM.
smihko Guest
Trudeau is right.
Harper with his fellas just destroy Canadian industry.
Just simple samples:
Sanctions against Russian Federation close the chance to open Joint Venture
company between Bombardier and Russian Aviation plant in Ulyanovsk, Russia.
As a result - about working places for
high level experience workers in aviation industry were lost.
How much money and working places Canadian pork industry lost, when Russia pay
back by closing export of pork from Canada? Anybody knows?
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Calgary is now my Home Guest
@smihko With all that babbling about nothing, You never once mention how he is right and what to do about it. Talk is cheap. Action and vision is what makes a leader.
correct answer Guest
@smihko
Wonder if those are some of the same rocket engines that failed the last times the US has tried to send something into
space ?
EOttawa Guest
@Calgary is now my Home
Back in , when Harper said he was going to build Canada into an energy
superpower, he didn't say how.
andee Guest
@smihko nobody should deal with Russia period. It is probably one of the most corrupted governments in the world. A lot of good companies from Canada have failed miserably under Putin's regime, and furthermore he is trying to take all his neighbouring countries, I do not blame our government for putting tough sanctions on Russia. International companies and unions destroyed Canadian manufacturing: ie, GMC, Chrysler, Freightliner, etc.So, what can we manufacture here and compete on the world... » more
RustBeltON Guest
@EOttawa
How can harper say anything other than: "I Failed" ?
RustBeltON Guest
@Calgary is now my Home
"all that babbling about nothing..."
'cause that is all you do all the time? Trudeau is right here, but just because
your CON's didn;t think of this, it's no good to you eh?
Now, GO Home, and stay there.
Vampire-two-three Guest
@RustBeltON
If he ever admits that, ONCE before he dies, then I promise I will not urinate
on his grave...
BobsOpinion Guest
@Calgary is now my Home
Albertans kicked the conservatives out for the same reason Canadians will kick
Harper to the curb . . . secrecy, lies and deception.
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Dave Guest
Justin, his dad is a very smart individual and is looking out for Canadians his great father Pierre Trudeau.Un Harper that to sell out Canada,Justin is interested in people over corporations.
Werner Blazejewski Guest
@Dave Hm? How much for Canada? I want to buy Canada, and throw out the people I don't !
girmreaper Guest
@Dave Yes, who can forget his multi-cultural gift? The beginning of the end of Canada as we know it!
month ago
mimi Guest
@girmreaper Are you a "just for whites and western European" type of person?
month ago
BobsOpinion Guest
@girmreaper
Unless you are a First Nations person you may want to shut-up.
month ago
L Emenopee Guest
@BobsOpinion
Before you tell anyone to "shut up", consider this: The immigrants
from Siberia were just one of many waves of immigrants, but they didn't build
civilization or a defensible country. Europeans did.
If there is one lesson to learn from the history of North America, it is that
you should not welcome colonization from other races. Inevitably it will
require a centralized dictatorship to bind the inherently dysfunctional union
together.
month ago
buddhawest Guest
@L Emenopee
They weren't Siberians .. they were nomads, and the first settlers in the
Americas.
You are right on one thing though ... the First Nations should never have
welcomed the European colonialism ... it has given us and them the pain of
Stephen Harper.
Never again!
month ago
risottoqueen Guest
@buddhawest ...................your insane anger and hatred towards Mr. Stephen Harper knows no bounds, you even blame PM Harper for European settlers coming to Canada years ago.
month ago
whine and cheese Guest
@Dave Justin, his dad, admires communists.
month ago
singleminded Guest
@Dave
"Justin, his dad is a very smart individual ..."
Actually, Justin is more his mom.
Let's just leave it at that.
month ago
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Look at my "LEGO SCULPTED HAIR" Guest
Trudeau is talking about issues that have been ignored . Look at Ontario, our manufacturing jobs are pretty much gone partly due to free trade and partly due to our over the top hydro costs.
month ago
AgitatedUser Guest
@Look at my "LEGO SCULPTED HAIR"
So why did so much manufacturing disappear before NAFTA and before the
"over the top hydro costs"?
month ago
AgitatedUser Guest
@sourceress
"Unfortunately, the hydro cost issue is a provincial thing. Can't blame
Harper for that one. That's McGuinty and now Wynne."
Funny that they weren't in power in when
the current Electricity Act was put in place that created the framework for the
current hydro pricing.
And they weren't in place when the province decided to subsidize electricity
generation costs with unstructured debt rather than increasing generating
capacity.
month ago
tony Guest
@Rob Lazy non unions and stupid conservative policies have ruined Canada. Why was it when unions strong manufacturing was booming and now majority is lazy non union and manufacturing keeps leaving? I hate lazy non union workers
month ago
correct answer Guest
@tony "lazy" non union workers are FIRED !
the same cannot be said for "lazy" "Not showing up"
"claiming to be sick" "slow" "obese" union
workers , big difference hey !
month ago
AgitatedUser Guest
@correct answer
""lazy" non union workers are FIRED "
So you've never worked in the financial industry I see.
month ago
RustBeltON Guest
@Look at my "LEGO SCULPTED HAIR"
I fear Hydro-Wynne is not going to benefit Ontarians.
This needs to be immediately addreesed and fixed before we attempt massive
Manufacturing endeavours in Ontario,...
We can start by upgrading our aged Fission Reactors with clean, safe, cheap
Fusion Reactor's,..., in about years
from now. :(
month ago
J Wagman Guest
@Look at my "LEGO SCULPTED HAIR"
Harper is hiding, Mulcair is hoping that everyone in Canada is a single-issue C
voter and Trudeau is raising important issues and putting out well thought-out
platforms.
Honestly, I was uncertain when he became leader of the party - but I have been
pleasantly surprised by his leadership. Certainly he seems to listen to
Canadians more than Harper and Mulcair. In fact, lately Mulcair and Harper are
so much a that it's really creeping me out....
month ago
percenter Guest
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Our corporate elite and the Communist Party of China have built a global empire
subsidized by:
Lack of human rights
Lack of democracy
Lack of rule law
Lack of environmental protection
Lack of free currency
REJECT unfairly subsidized investment, goods and services.
Or lose your job, your wealth, and your way of life.
month ago
whine and cheese Guest
@Look at my "LEGO SCULPTED HAIR" The Ontario Liberal party is not a friend of manufacturers. Just the opposite.
month ago
Carl Guest
@Look at my "LEGO SCULPTED HAIR"
It's free trade and only free trade that is screwing Canada jobs.
month ago
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CanTankarous Guest
I don't know what those Con supporters are huffing and puffing
about. Anyone with half a brain realizes that Canada needs a strategy for EVERY
sector of the economy, not just the oil industry.
The fact that Trudeau has voiced that opinion seems to just infuriate all of
the Cons because their leader, Harper, can't seem to get more than idea into his head at a time.
At least Trudeau has voiced thoughtful opinions whether they have been backed with
a full plan or not. Harper just panders and... » more
month ago
Calgary is now my Home Guest
@CanTankarous It doesn't infuriate me because he voices an opinion . Envisioning this man leading the country and bankrupting us at every turn because he doesn't have a clue what's he's doing. It would be a year old house league hockey player trying to make it in a rookie camp at an NHL team.
month ago
We Vote CBC! Guest
@Calgary is now my Home
You must be a Maple Leafs fan.
month ago
Calgary is now my Home Guest
@We Vote CBC! You make my point about most voters. Conservatives are trying to be serious and cut through the BS that the world and lefties live in and make a life for our country and you make jokes. And no , I used to be a maple leaf fan, but the days of Darryl Sittler and Lanny McDonald are long gone.
month ago
We Vote CBC! Guest
@Calgary is now my Home
"Conservatives are trying to be serious and cut through the BS" How
can that happen when its the cons making up the BS? And that wasn't a joke.
month ago
RustBeltON Guest
@CanTankarous
Harper's disdain of Canadians, is only outmatched by his continual pandering to
his Corporate base, and ONLY his Corporate base.
He literally knows no other life. ?!
month ago
oldbutwise Guest
@Calgary is now my Home Do you remember Mulroney? Under him our deficit grew our national debt close to % of our GDP. We were becoming Greece. The Cons. never have balanced budgets, just phoney ones.
month ago
Citizen Dame Guest
@Calgary is now my Home The life that the Harper government envisions is not a d desire with most Canadians. Thank God we have the Supreme Court.
month ago
BobsOpinion Guest
@Calgary is now my Home
Are you enjoying your NDP lewdqadership.
Alberta conservatives could never balance their budget . . . collected more
from gambling than oil.
month ago
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Johhnyb Guest
Trudeau is absolutely right.
month ago
Calgary is now my Home Guest
@Johhnyb About what?? He hasn't said anything we don't already know.
month ago
correct answer Guest
@Calgary is now my Home
One thing about "YES" men they are very easy to convince of things
month ago
RustBeltON Guest
@Johhnyb
This time around, Trudeau is absolutely right, and it needs to be said out
loud.
month ago
whine and cheese Guest
@Johhnyb He is clueless.
month ago
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proportional over partisan: balance sheets don't lie Guest
After a decade of failed oil strategy, this is great to hear. We need this in order to break into new international markets, and Trudeau understands that. All Harper wanted was to sell Alberta oil and he flushed that puppy right down the drain. Mulcair doesn't even know the tax rate. We need a solid strategy, this is the right path.
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correct answer Guest
Make sure you read the labels on any products you buy
Buy local , buy Canadian , Buy North American , Buy Western Hemisphere in that
order , do not under any circumstances buy foreign made products from places
that have a lower standard of living than here or lower wages than here , it is
neither thrifty nor smart to buy foreign made goods as it puts your neighbor
out of work
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Alex A Guest
@correct answer, you are completely correct - the other problem is quality - places with cheap labour have poorly trained people and no quality control resulting in things which fall apart well before goods made in North America or Europe.
month ago
RustBeltON Guest
@correct answer
what "Made in Canada".? have you even shopped anywhere here ?, we
barely manufacture anything in Canada anymore, it's ALL imported, even Asian
fish... ???
get real bud.
month ago
Citizen Dame Guest
@RustBeltON Try a little harder and stay out of WallyWorld.
month ago
percenter Guest
@correct answer
Thank you for your great comment!
Reject investments, goods and services that are subsidized by:
Lack of human rights
Lack of democracy
Lack of rule law
Lack of environmental protection
Lack of free currency
Or lose your job, your wealth, and your way of life.
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proportional over partisan: balance sheets don't lie Guest
I participated in a couple of online town halls on this issue, and he's got it right. He understands that manufacturers in Canada need help getting international sales, and that's what they're going to help us with. I can't tell you how refreshing it is to hear that what the rest of us in manufacturing do will be important again after a decade of being nd fiddle to a failed dil bit strategy.
month ago
correct answer Guest
@proportional over partisan
As soon as you can get the wages down to the same as other places where
manufacturing is moving and the costs down to the same as those other places ,
that is when manufacturing will flourish in Canada , Canada needs to
manufacture things from our own resources , the government could slowly squeeze
the steel market to keep all steel in Canada to only be sold as finished
products that may get some manufacturing going
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We Vote CBC! Guest
Strategies meant to improve Canadian's lives. No wonder the cons can't grasp how this may work.
month ago
Disambiguation Guest
@We Vote CBC!
Neither Justin nor the Liberals have any idea on what to do - how do you expect
anyone else to grasp what they might be thinking?
month ago
We Vote CBC! Guest
@Disambiguation
Trudeau has out-maneuvered harper twice in the past month. I'll wait for the
details.
month ago
Disambiguation Guest
@We Vote CBC!
Trudeau has out-maneuvered Justin at least twice this past month. At this rate,
he's going to be running against himself in the next election....
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We Vote CBC! Guest
@Disambiguation
What a dumb thing to say.
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John Lee Guest
Doing a better job of selling Canada would include not making rather ignorant comments regarding ISIS.
month ago
T Laughing Lion Guest
@John Lee ?
Or needing ISIS/ISIL in the headlines as the only way of winning an election.
month ago
proportional over partisan: balance sheets don't lie Guest
@John Lee - yah, i know, its hard to believe that Harper would use actual footage from ISIS killings in his own political advertising. He broke his own laws on that one.
month ago
whine and cheese Guest
@John Lee Most times, Trudeau's comments are scary.
month ago
BobsOpinion Guest
@John Lee
How are Canadians going to stop a tribal war that has been going on for
centuries,
It is an Arab problem that requires an Arab solution.
Arab nations have huge resources . . . Canada is borrowing money to fight their
battle.
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Billy Boib Guest
completely agreed with Justin on this one. The American trade advisors for the various US states are eating our lunch when it comes to landing foreign companies to do business.
month ago
Calgary is now my Home Guest
@Billy Boib So, you agree with justin on this one. what's he going to do about it, billy.
month ago
BobsOpinion Guest
@Calgary is now my Home
The official election has not started so you will have to wait.
Meanwhile Harper can invest millions in childish attack ads against our next PM
. . . JT.
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mo Guest
ain't gonna happen while steve is still around.
month ago
Calgary is now my Home Guest
@mo And with the competition, PM Harper will be around for a very very long time.
mo Guest
@Calgary is now my Home months is not a long time.
month ago
BobsOpinion Guest
@Calgary is now my Home
If JT wasn't a serious threat Harper wouldn't be spending millions on attack
ads and supporting posters yourself . .
desperate people say and do desperate things.
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Look at my "LEGO SCULPTED HAIR" Guest
Harper spent years advocating
for Big Oil. He stood with hands in pocket watching Canada's economy dwindle.
Trudeau has the leadership to build a strong manufacturing base, build a strong
energy base.
month ago
whine and cheese Guest
@Look at my "LEGO SCULPTED HAIR" Trudeau admires the Chinese communist leadership.
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Concerned Canadian Citizrn Guest
Trudeau is so right. Our current PM is never in the country long enough since he is giving away so much money to other countries and stepping way too much into international problems. The priority has to be to address our local country issues and the continued erosion and disappearance of the manufactoring sector in general and establish and put forth incentives that make Canada and its various regions lucrative areas to establish and maintain businesses. Look how the auto industry is moving... » more
month ago
John Gee Guest
@Concerned Canadian Citizrn : " Look how the auto industry is
moving from Canada to Mexico."
It's also moving from the United States to Mexico, from Europe to Mexico and
Asia to Mexico.
"Voting for Trudeau we need a fresh start and a new figure representing
Canada because our current PM is not credible at home"
Why not vote NDP ? At least if you are looking for a fresh start and a new
figure representing Canada you might get someone ready, with experience beyond
supply teaching and acting in... » more
month ago
nemo Guest
@Concerned Canadian Citizrn i agree , the feds should only deal with foreign policy. Open up provincial trade and let the provincial leaders deal with domestic uses .
month ago
J Wagman Guest
@John Gee
Wow, more personal attacks on Trudeau from the NDP crowd. Didn't take you guys
long to start acting Conservatives.
In case you didn't notice, Canadians are sick of negative, personal attacks.
Clearly, you cannot criticize Trudeau's platform, so you have to resort to
cheap attacks.
I would take Trudeau's team over the people that Mulcair has put together.
Canada doesn't need another government who doesn't play well with others.
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Concerned Canadian Citizrn Guest
Case-in-point : When WAS the LAST TIME our current PM held a meeting with the Canadian Premiers ??? He does not have his finger on the pulse of Canada no way what so ever!
month ago
nova scotia gal Guest
@Concerned Canadian Citizrn Why would he?all they want is more money.
month ago
mimi Guest
@nova scotia gal Who pays the taxes in this country?Think about it.
month ago
BobsOpinion Guest
@nova scotia gal
Canada's PM should be meeting with Premiers, union leaders and the Canadian
media.
It is called communication and connecting with Canadians . . . something Harper
doesn't get.
month ago
whine and cheese Guest
@Concerned Canadian Citizrn All they want, Liberal premier Wynne of Ontario, is more money to fuel inept provincial policy. Can you blame him?
month ago
Carl Guest
@Concerned Canadian Citizrn
He feels Premiers are beneath him!!!!
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MarEng Guest
"On Thursday, Holder said this "will be part of his
high-tax plan on Canadians" and Trudeau's policies "will devastate
our region's manufacturing sector, further proof that he is just not ready to
be prime minister."
lol
We know who has devastated Canada's manufacturing sector now, don't we.
And, a hint for you Holder, his initials are SH......
Interesting initials those.
I wonder if we could use them in a word?
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springsprung Guest
If Canada needs selling, it will not happen with a second PM Trudeau.
month ago
unequal partner Guest
@springsprung
True. By the time he gets in Harper will have sold everything already.
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Sanity_check Guest
So does Trudeau's "manufacturing strategy" involve increasing the subsidies for manufacturing with public funds?
month ago
BobsOpinion Guest
@Sanity_check
That is a Harper strategy . . . didn't work.
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Zoolander Guest
He also said budgets balance themselves.
month ago
EOttawa Guest
@Zoolander
So did Flaherty.
month ago
AgitatedUser Guest
@Zoolander
"He also said budgets balance themselves."
They do.
month ago
oldbutwise Guest
@Zoolander If you create a strong economy, budgets DO balance themselves. How is that so hard to understand?
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Harper's Psychiatrist Guest
Just imagine that in the modern Canadian Conservative Party a man Henry Ford would be run out the door as a
socialist.
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"There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best
quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages
possible."
Henry Ford
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jameswa Guest
If people stop and think for a moment they will realize that
successive liberal gov,ts brought large mnfc. to Ontario by investing in
infrastructure----granting land and increasing immigration to build a solid
industry base !
What Justin Trudeau proposes going forward is re-newal and re-innovation in new
technology !
What Harper proposes is pandering to BIG MONEY to help hold onto billions that
is stagnating and stalling future growth !
Do we need BIG MONEY or BIG IDEAS ? We need... » more
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William Hebert Guest
Trudeau need to hammer this over and over in Ontario in order to take seats from the Reformicons. He is on the right path because Harper and his band of half-wits have done very little to bolster Ontario's value add sector. In fact, Flaherty actually went so far as to criticize Ontario on the world stage something no self-respecting government would ever allow!
John Gee Guest
@William Hebert ---------- "Trudeau need to hammer this over
and over in Ontario in order to take seats from the Reformicons."
Trudeau should be more worried over the fact that increasing numbers of
Canadians see the NDP as the best bet to take seats from what you refer to as
"Reformicons"
Don't forget the Liberal Party of Ontario have presided for years over the hollowing out of Ontario's
manufacturing base.
David in Alberta Guest
@John Gee Funny that, the people in Ontario just overwhelmingly elected a Liberal government, one run by a women, and a lesbian to boot. That has to le those stuck under the Harper tent-revival crusade where the clouds gather and the rain falls. The Conservatives may be the most complete failure of any Canadian government ever. Tell us how Ontario hates Liberals again? hahaha
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Why hasn't this made the CBC news wires?
http://www.malaysiandigest.com/business/-canadian-economy-heading-for-recession-banks.html
whine and cheese Guest
@We Vote CBC! CBC can only do so much conservative bashing in one day.
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Harper's Psychiatrist Guest
Conservatives claim that wages are the issue if we are to compete in
the world and that unions are the cause. Lets say Canada achieves wage parity
with Vietnam, or China, or Bangladesh.
Canadians will not be able to afford the products they manufacture and consumer
demand in the economy will plummet along with GDP, and everything else.
Conservatives and their ideological hatred of unions is leading them to desire
economic suicide in order to 'cut off their nose to spite their face.' This... » more
month ago
Bring Back our Canada - Guest
@Wally - Definitely agree... I don't want to vote for an ideologically extremist party - whether it is the Conservatives or NDP.
Trudeau and his team will govern our country into prosperity
based on "evidence based policy".
No more muzzled experts... Please!
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SonOfNiel Guest
Cut unrealistic high union wages, cut red tape, cut ridiculous electricity costs, cut payroll taxes. Then you'll see that we can compete.
edwinpeter Guest
@SonOfNiel What world do you live in where you get all this stuff for free, Greece?
Just-a-fan Guest
@SonOfNiel
Want to compete with Malaysia or India? Be my guest and live for a month in the
kind of poverty the workers experience in these and other such countries.
You'll be rushing back to Canada on the first flight. Don't worry, there is
little or no union voice to help you with your meagre existence. Red tape is far
beyond anything that any Canadian witnesses now. Never mind electricity costs,
just try to get reliable electricity service. Pay roll taxes, well there goes
your health care... » more
Rob Guest
@SonOfNiel I wonder what Unions do with their wages.
Could it be spend it? Maybe on raising a family?
But... if they spend money, then they pay tax. Where does that tax go?? Who
gets it?
Much better it give it all to their employer who will hide it in an offshore
account where he pays no taxes at all. Much better for Canada and ALL its local
businesses for a few people to acquire obscene wealth that's hidden in offshore
tax shelters.
What a way to boost the economy. Get that money from... » more
Dave Guest
@SonOfNiel Union wages are NOT unrealistically high.Unions are sorely needed expecailly these days when corporations offer little in decent wages,benifits and retirement.
whine and cheese Guest
@SonOfNiel In other words don't vote lib or dip.
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The flip flop kid.Jan// London Ontario Justin Trudeau says Ontario must move away from manufacturing, Jan// Windsor Ontario,the government must do more for manufacturing so which one is it?
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Zoolander Guest
@nova scotia gal He needs new "advisors".
Calgary is now my Home Guest
@nova scotia gal He doesn't have a clue what he's talking about.
CanTankarous Guest @nova scotia gal
Ummm you are Harper aren't you? Can't
grasp more than one fact at a time.
"southwestern Ontario are amazingly resilient and have demonstrated that
moving beyond manufacturing-based employment is something they're willing to
do"
and
"Justin Trudeau, who believes the country needs to have a national
manufacturing strategy to help boost job prospects in places southwestern Ontario"
does not mean that they are opposing comments. In fact, the statements build on... » more
month ago
nova scotia gal Guest
@CanTankarous It's nothing to do with who i'm ,it's about Justwynne talking out of both sides of his mouth he does with every issue.
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EOttawa Guest
@nova scotia gal
Given that you can't keep names straight, I'm not surprised you don't
understand the nuances @CanTankarous described.
month ago
BobsOpinion Guest
@nova scotia gal
JT is a well-read family man who was raised in the global diplomatic community
with a Liberal father and a Conservative grandfather . . . Harper worked in an
oil company mail-room.
month ago
BobsOpinion Guest
@Calgary is now my Home
No . . . that would be you.
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Bring Back our Canada - Guest
If the Conservatives continue to put "all eggs in one
basket" (aka oilsands)
it represents Harper's "defeatist attitude".
I don't mind if Harper puts a firewall around Alberta...
But we shouldn't let Harper put a firewall around all of Canada... Vote
Trudeau.
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Calgary is now my Home Guest
Sooooo, what is it Bright Boy. All talk and no action, just obama.
month ago
Fred Said Guest
@Calgary is now my Home Actually Trudeau isn't President or PM. Un Obama, Harper controls both the House and the Senate so after nine years in "power" he has no excuse. Why don't you ask Closet Boy?
month ago
BobsOpinion Guest
@Calgary is now my Home
JT is a well-read family man who was raised in the global diplomatic community
with a Liberal father and a Conservative grandfather . . . Harper worked in an
oil company mail-room.
month ago
whine and cheese Guest
@Calgary is now my Home No hope, just spare change.
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Thaigrr Viles Guest
Here's a manufacturing strategy for Trudeau and the rest of you
union-loving Lefties that are bankrupting our country: Stop making it
impossible to compete with public sector wages!
To anyone thinking of going into a skilled trade: forget it! Go get a job in
the public sector and win the lottery! Just in Greece...
month ago
poisonpen Guest
@Thaigrr Viles
Public sector wages are not higher that private sector wages.
The problem is that when comparisons are made by the anti worker crowd compares
a private sector retail job (cashier) with a public professional job (nurse or
engineer)
But a professional or trades person in the private sector gets paid far more
plus overtime and no pay scrutiny by an agency that publishes their annual pay.
Iv'e worked for both.
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SeanBiggs Guest
Trudeau Jr is a socialist.
month ago
mimi Guest
@SeanBiggs No he isn't.
month ago
BobsOpinion Guest
@SeanBiggs
Liberal is not left in Canada . . . cannot expect you to get it.
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thomas davidson Guest
explain how pls
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mellowcanadian Guest
@thomas davidson he doesn't know
month ago
whine and cheese Guest
@mellowcanadian He's clueless.
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Downrigger Guest
It was the Liberal Party that first started with the destruction of our Manufacturing industry.When I hear statements this from Trudeau my distrust in him just grows and grows.Will he ever say anything worth while?
month ago
whine and cheese Guest
@Downrigger Liberal Uncle Jean promised to tear up NAFTA. Another broken liberal promise.
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inuk of the north Guest
Liberals would do to Canada what they did to Ontario.
month ago
Ashleigh Guest
@Canadian
You hope do you, eh?
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BobsOpinion Guest
@inuk of the north
"Liberals would do to Canada what they did to Ontario."
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Liberals in BC have had a surplus for the past years.
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Albertan Guest
AT LAST!! Someone who believes in Canadians and their ability to manufacture and supply products to the global community.... OTHER THAN oil.
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Gostriker Guest
Trudeau is talking issues. Harper and Mulcair are mainly talking
negative Trudeau.
You do have a choice.
month ago
Western Politico Guest
@Gostriker Trudeau, the oil millionaire, is not a choice.
month ago
BobsOpinion Guest
@Western Politico
Oil Millionaire?
JT is a well-read family man who was raised in the global diplomatic community
with a Liberal father and a Conservative grandfather . . . Harper worked in an
oil company mail-room.
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Harper's Psychiatrist Guest
George W. Bush had a solution to the manufacturing problem in the US
which is something Harper who loves propaganda might enjoy. Bush wanted to
designate fast food as manufacturing because you have to assemble a hamburger.
Changing the designation of fast food would make the stats look better. Harper
would be all over that.
http://www.alternet.org/story//bush_creates_new_manufacturing_jobs!
month ago
Jaspersdad Guest
@Wally, Harper's Newest Psychiatrist Shhhhh...
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Rob Guest
Oh Ottawa is doing a fine job of selling Canada... One natural resource at a time for pennies on the dollar of their value. Thats how they "balance the books"
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BobsOpinion Guest
If Germany can have unions and manufacturing so can Canada.
All we ned is a government that cares about Canada and Canadian workers . . .
NOT Harper.
month ago
seniorgoodguy Guest
@BobsOpinion
Germany will not escape either, this global move that is changing the world of
manufacturing and turning it...ON IT'S HEAD.
month ago
Atrus Guest
@BobsOpinion
Increasing automation will shutter the German automotive worker as well. When
that robotic arm killed that worker recently, the problem to business was not
the arm but the presence of the worker.
Lights out manufacturing already exists and will inevitably phase out % of
automotive manufacturing positions. Same goes for d printing and small parts
manufacturing.
month ago
BobsOpinion Guest
@Atrus
Who do you think builds the robots?
month ago
BobsOpinion Guest
@seniorgoodguy
"Germany will not escape either, this global move that is changing the
world of manufacturing and turning it...ON IT'S HEAD."
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You don't know what you are talking about . . . as usual.
month ago
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Phillip Michael Guest
A manufacturing strategy.
Something the Harper regime ignored.
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NoKoolaid Guest
Harper just rants on with the fear and terror agenda. Trudeau has positive ideas and strategies to help Canadians and their families.
month ago
Mr. Dooley Guest
@NoKoolaid I'd rather the government stay far away from my family since they took more than enough money from mine and gave to some one else.
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Igor Dzaic Guest
Vote NDP. Mulcair actually understands economics. Trudeau just says things that sounds nice.
month ago
Zoolander Guest
@Igor Dzaic Tom can't manage his own mortgage, or his party's money. How can he manage the country's finances?
month ago
Werner Blazejewski Guest
@Igor Dzaic Mulcair knows what? That men re mortgaged his house times ! Not economical at all , forever in depth ! Guess where he is taking Canada, forever into depth !
month ago
Fred Said Guest
@Igor Dzaic If I were feeling a little nastier I'd mention a recent Mulcair slip up. Why do so many NDP supporters enjoy helping the Con trolls so much? You do know that in the event of an NDP minority it would be the Liberals who you'd need for support??
month ago
BobsOpinion Guest
@Igor Dzaic
JT is a well-read family man who was raised in the global diplomatic community
with a Liberal father and a Conservative grandfather . . . Harper worked in an
oil company mail-room and angry Mulcair doesn't have a clue about economics.
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bca Guest
Ontario and the Liberals are a big culprit of mismanagement that is responsible for some of Canada's short comings. They are not bringing in new business, they are chasing away many long term companies. Ontario is not competitive, too expensive, over compensated government payroll, education too expensive with some bad expensive programs, and way too much debt.
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whine and cheese Guest
@bca Alberta NDP will do the same thing. Business will move out of the province.
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Carl Guest
At least he realizes we have a problem Harper doesn't even know
there is a problem which happens when you put all your hope on one industry!!
OIL!!!
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Look at my "LEGO SCULPTED HAIR" Guest
Alberta has NO say who Harper sells their oil to.
Time for Albertans to regain their resources.
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William Hebert Guest
Trudeau appears to be bang on yet again.
In terms of value added the Reformicon's dropped the ball long ago!
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Lorne Guest
More fear based politics by the Harper government. "Ebola is
coming, Ebola is coming! The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming! The
terrorists are coming, Canada is under eminent threat! Liberals are going to
devastate the economy with high taxes, high taxes are coming!
Does anyone still believe these washed up bums?
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Stuckinthemiddle Guest
Holder said this "will be part of his high-tax plan on
Canadians" and Trudeau's policies "will devastate our region's
manufacturing sector, further proof that he is just not ready to be prime
minister."
Typical Conservative response to intelligent comments, use party talking points
that don't necessarily relate to the topic. It is what they have been doing
through out their term; in parliament question period, in talking to the media
and in their advertisements. It's an affront to democracy and... » more
month ago
Mr. Dooley Guest
@Stuckinthemiddle Liberal policy in Ontario is what JT wants to do
to the rest of Canada. Destruction of , jobs isn't enough evidence for you to
see that it doesn't work?
Lying cheating Liberals spend and tax and wonder why no one's working. Idiots.
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AgitatedUser Guest
@Mr. Dooley
"Destruction of , jobs "
Interesting. Did you realize that the participation rate in Ontario is the same
as it was during Harris' last term? (and higher than during the Eaves term)?
That means that the , jobs lost were found again.
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A true canadian Guest
Famous last name is out trying to promise people in each region
something.
In Quebec, he tried to bribe them with infrastructure spending. His
announcement at Bombardier failed because they sold their train and bus
division shortly after he tried to buy votes there.
In BC he promises no pipelines and environmental oversight because he thinks
that's all that matters to BC. He doesn't consider the large oil and gas,
forestry, agriculture and mining industry there, or the problems oil and
gas,... » more
month ago
David in Alberta Guest
@A true canadian You mean bribing them with phony budgets and promises of largesse based on phony surpluses. Or how about a government that spend hundreds of millions on totally false partisan advertising that has no relation to the reality? the Economic Action Plan, (Go Broke Betting the Farm) or the "We Take Care of our Veterans" = ignore all the complaining veterans and listen to us.Or real problems convictions for election fraud. Notice that none of this is on your radar. Are... » more
month ago
BobsOpinion Guest
@A true canadian
JT is a well-read family man who was raised in the global diplomatic community
with a Liberal father and a Conservative grandfather . . . Harper worked in an
oil company mail-room.
month ago
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Mel S Guest
"National Strategy" (TM) is another way of saying massive subsidies. Are the same people who scream about the evil corporate subsidies accepting of these only when the political featherweight leader of the Liberals says it?
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golfernut Guest
I am actually tired of learning about all the selling of Canada to Europeans taking place, particularly in the Maritimes. did you know that most land is being sold to Europeans? The more t his guy opens his mouth, the more it reinforces that if the Liberals want to be considered serious, they need, no they require a new Leader. He has to go.
month ago
Fred Said Guest
@golfernut Actually it's Harper who has to go. His cabinet has already left and are trying to distance themselves before the next scandal hits. I'm surprised Kenny's still there.
month ago
mimi Guest
@golfernut years ago Nova Scotians were complaining that all of the land was being bought up by Europeans. Now the same sort of complaints are being brought up on the West Coast. I was living there at the time and not all Nova Scotians thought it was a bad thing.
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DavidJN Guest
Isn't it amazing that there are so few stories in mainstream media about how the Canadian economy has printed negative GDP growth for months in a row? And just before an election, no less. If Mr. Mulcair were PM wouldn't you imagine that the biznob press would be screaming blue bloody murder? What is going on here? Why is the press giving Harper and his rusty old parrot Joe Oliver a pass on this damning news?
month ago
jameswa Guest
@DavidJN WE all know the answer to that-----BIG MONEY !
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worndown Guest
Harper refused to meet with the Ontario premiers for many years
because Harper doesn't meet with "lesser beings" provincial premiers, reporters with un-vetted
questions, or regular (unscreened) Canadian voters. Flaherty once advised
investors in New York to avoid putting money into Ontario (because Ontario was
not lowering corporate tax rate fast enough for federal minister Flaherty).
Harper has been poison to the Ontario economy; but he did to visit Rob Ford.
month ago
Atrus Guest
@worndown
Ontario premiers have all been the worst crooks in the country. Political
distance is simply a good idea. Ontario and Quebec represents our very own
Greece, where it will be expected that the rest of the country bail you out
when your debts become unpayable.
Right now the provinces owe nearly as
much in debt as the federal government does for the entire country.
month ago
AgitatedUser Guest
@Atrus
"Right now the provinces owe nearly
as much in debt as the federal government does for the entire country."
Which sounds scary until you realize that the provincial governments have more
responsibilities than the federal government.
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mimi Guest
I read two pages of comments and 'right to work" legislation popped out. I wondered how long it would be before someone mentioned it would be great for Canada. Conservatives because they are Republican wannabes are all for it. Hudak wanted it for Ontario and I expect Brown wants it too. How does bucks an hour sound for skilled labour?Aren't conservatives always telling us they have created so many jobs, we should reelect them and that the manufacturing sector is doing fine with all of the... » more
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Canadian Guest
@mimi
I agree with you. Thanks for the comment
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Ashleigh Guest
@mimi
Once again you presume that you can ask questions for all of us.
Too funny.
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Hoops McCann Guest
“Let’s talk about Stephen.”
“Well, he’s affiliated with a sect of Fundamentalist Christianity that is known
for both their racist and misogynistic views…”
“He thinks the Earth is only years old,
and is very anti-science…how irrational is that?!”
“He’d turn Canada into a theocracy if we let him.”
“He hates Muslims because they dare to believe in a different god than he
does…”
“He’s constantly pandering to Israel, which only further infuriates the
Islamists.”
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Bogmer Guest
@Hoops McCann
FYI... Christians and Muslims believe in the same god... Different saviours.
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WhoaWhatWT Guest
@Hoops McCann "Lets talk about the other Guy's"
Trudeau believe's in... we know not what, Mulcair simply believes he is God,
Harper believe's in God, so does my Mom.
Pick your poison.
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Western Politico Guest
@Hoops McCann Read here long enough and you will always find religious bigotry
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SusanDe Guest
I agree with Trudeau. We have all of the raw materials in Canada to make very high quality steel, for instance, but instead of using them we dig them up and ship them off and buy inferior steel from India.
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GaryNelson Guest
@SusanDe ... We have more raw material than just about any other
country but who can afford us when unions are running the industry?
The only people unions help are in China, Mexico etc., when we have to export
raw materials and Canadian businesses outsource manufacturing.
If we can't compete we can't manufacture.
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mickey moore Guest
@SusanDe
Steel? ....run !!!!!
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Wray Guest
@SusanDe
Yes we do, but Trudeau isn't saying that he wants Canadians to develop those
resources - he just wants to switch from relying on American corporations to
foreign global corporations, which leaves Canadians no better off at all.
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Greg Howard Guest
So, "just not ready" is the mantra? As for harper it should be "what a mistake it was to vote this guy in in the first place".
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oldbutwise Guest
Cons. have no idea how to stimulate the economy. Manufacturing and infrastructure should be the priorities now. America says Canada is in a recession. Joe Oliver disagrees. Remember . Cons. said "What recession?". Same thing over again. Wake up Oliver.
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A true canadian Guest
@oldbutwise
Hmm.
What did the stimulus spending go too.. INFRASTRUCTURE.
Why are NDPay and Lieberals upset now? Because the government ran up debt
during the recession keeping Canada mostly sheltered.
You are old and have memory problems it seems. Wisdom doesn't always come with
age it appears.
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AgitatedUser Guest
@A true canadian
"Why are NDPay and Lieberals upset now? Because the government ran up debt
during the recession keeping Canada mostly sheltered. "
So when the feds make snide remarks about Ontario's debt growth as part of the
stimulus spending packages they are being hypocritical?
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Phin Guest
Manufacturing? Hamilton was one of the leading areas in this country for heavy manufacturing. No its all gone, just empty warehouses and building. Its a global market, we can't compete with lower labor wages. I think that ship has sailed, we need more vision for the future.
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risottoqueen Guest
Angry Mulcair doesn't even know what the corporate tax rate is in Canada, but he does know he wants to raise it.
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Fred Flinstone Guest
industrial Hemp is the answer. there are over products which can be derived from hemp. Everything from bio-degradeable plastics to biodiesel to nutritional dietary supplements and medicines.Hemp cultivation on a national level would reduce the environmental damage caused by decades of pollution and clear cutting of our forests as it is a `carbon sink`. it produces more fibre that any other plant making it ideal for building materials,paper,cloth, thereby saving trees and habitat.It can... » more
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jameswa Guest
@Fred Flinstone You are right reguarding hemp and it was Progressive
Conservative Gov,t in the ,s that shut it down !
This is one way to regrow our mnf. base and there are many more innovative
ideas that will come forth once WE TURF the TYRANT !
VOTE A.B.C. OCT. !
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Lynn@Alberta Guest
As long as China and India are in the picture, our manufacturing will come to an end. Cheap labor to produce the Walmart crap is always wanted by consumers. Plus we have tooo many Kevin O'leary's that don't care about the Canadian jobs, cause its all about the bottom line!
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UnionizedcivilservantsarecausingapublicdebtcrisisinCanada Guest
The strategy is called right to work legislation.
The unions are killing our productivity and competitiveness.
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David in Alberta Guest
@Goodbye So the worlds healthiest economy is ly Germany's. German businesses work side by side with the unions, germany has some of the worlds strongest trade unions. German products include cars (not made in Mexico) and high tech items of many types. Unions are not killing Canada, it is the intention of the Conservatives to make it one giant oil company that is killing Canada.
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Widget Maker Guest
There was this act called the National Energy Program. It
nationalized the oil industry in Canada.
Foreign investment is shy of investing in countries with a history of
nationalization.
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mimi Guest
@Widget Maker How's Norway doing?
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LazyJake Guest
Why sell, Canada's politicians in Ottawa prefer to give 'our stuff' away?!
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Harper's Psychiatrist Guest
In a free market capital organizes into corporations and labour also
organizes into unions. If a Government supports a free market it keeps out of
the way and the 'invisible hand' of the markets decides.
If the Governments aligns itself with the capital it is fascist and if it
aligns itself with labour it is communist. The optimal place is a balancing
act.
Conservatives cannot balance. They've made a choice.
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edwinpeter Guest
Not planning for one's life or the future of one's country will end
up with a confused pile of failed start up projects, and wasted resources,
money and intelligence.
This should not a year fixed plan but a
living document that can react to a changes in World events, but a Government
can use it as reference to test the sense of an new idea to see if it fits with
the country's best long term interests.
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RustBeltON Guest
"national manufacturing strategy ..."
We need to hit the floor man running with new idea's and projects:
./ Build and mass produce our own Vehicles, (South Korea did it, so can we).
./ Manufacture ALL of our own Wind and Solar products/needs, and stop importing
them.
./ Begin a National Nuclear Fusion Energy Program, this should be the Number agenda.
.. and about a thousand other "manufacturing" things that I can't
think of right now.
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jameswa Guest
@RustBeltON Your ideas echo my ideas which means there are millions
of Canadians who probably have the same thoughts !
All we have to do is vote for change by kicking the tyrant out !
VOTE A.B.C. OCT. !
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A true canadian Guest
@RustBeltON
Ok Lets do it. You start by investing the several billion to start the vehicle
plant, or manaufacturing plants for wind or solar parts.
Oh whats that you cant afford it? Gee go figure. Who do you think should come
up with the money for it?
The government... Why should the government be in business.
Maybe give a little more thought process to your ideas before tossing them up.
While a great political or chest thumping opportunity, unless you have people
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James Bilodeau Guest
We need a government with a set of kahonies to go against corporatism! We need a government who will look after the people who pay its frigging salary!!
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RustBeltON Guest
Yes, Yes, YES !!! ... Canada needs to manufacture intelligently, in a competitive potentially automated world, and NOT by by just bringing in a million more TFW's.
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Bogmer Guest
Problem is that in Canada a person would rather buy a piece of garbage made in China than a $
quality piece that will last two lifetimes.
That is the reality that we live in here in Canada.
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BobsOpinion Guest
@bogmer
I would pay more for a Canadian TV if it was well made.
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BrentGrywinski Guest
The strategy is called getting rid of Oil Man Harper in October.
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Zaltan Pfeffer Guest
"Justin Trudeau says Canada needs a manufacturing
strategy"
This from a boy who never ran a kool aid stand or sold a hotdog, or had a paper
route.
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A. Farmer Guest
@Guitrod
We've never had a good PM with an economics degree.
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BobsOpinion Guest
@Zaltan Pfeffer
JT is a well-read family man who was raised in the global diplomatic community
with a Liberal father and a Conservative grandfather . . . Harper worked in an
oil company mail-room.
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Katetbay Guest
Trudeau is stuck with a credibility gap ... (even bigger than this
his new guy Soudas)
The Liberal history IS the credibility gap. Martin was fiscally conservative
(not a progressive bone in his body) Our public health care suffered as did
much of our safety net. Dion "shifted" green (can't shift if the
Party was green to start with) ... Iggie was all fluff and stale slogans. He
couldn't even explain that coalition governments were in fact legal and
necessary in our multi-party system.... and... » more
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We Vote CBC! Guest
@Katetbay
Soudas did not join the Liberals.
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John Gee Guest
@Katetbay --------- "Germany does it through balance. A
left/right/green coalition government ... public health care ........"
Even in Health Care Germany does it through balance as they have both Public
& Private Health Insurance About .% of residents with health insurance are
members of the public system, while .% are covered by private insurance.
http://www.iedm.org/files/note_en.pdf
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John Gee Guest
@We Vote CBC! -------- "Soudas did not join the Liberals."
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha hardy har har
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Carl Guest
Every company that has left Canada for cheaper labor raise their
import costs to a point where they gain nothing.
Maybe then they will consider moving back. We cannot compete with countries
that pay dollars an hour!!!!
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andee Guest
We cannot compete with foreign countries, because our labour costs and location is not an advantage. We are a nation of resources and agriculture, these are what we should be specializing in. We need pipelines and co-operation between provinces before anything will work properly. Our Made in Canada has left a long time ago.
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bca Guest
@andee You are so very right.
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David in Alberta Guest
@bca We need pipelines? We need co-operation between provinces? That
translates roughly as
"This is the oil company agenda, Alberta is the only province in Canada
and should be in charge. Other provinces should shut up and farm and frack then
things will be fine. We can lie about the emissions and make promises that we
cannot keep which should be good enough."
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andee Guest
@David in Alberta I guess you will never get it
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The-devil-you-know Guest
OK JT, now you got us listening
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PetuniaRose Guest
I wish the Liberals would stop stumping for Ontario votes by pretending Canada is some kind of manufacturing giant. We aren't, we have a small population that is spread over a huge area. We can't compete with manufacturing giants China with their . billion workers, or the US with its economy X bigger than Canada's. We can support a couple key manufacturers such as Bombardier, and that's all. We do however have a vast country with resources the world is begging for, but lefties are... » more
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Bogmer Guest
@PetuniaRose
Isn't Katleen Wynn the one that wants to exploit the Northern resources and
it's Harper that is killing it...
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Zaltan Pfeffer Guest
@bogmer
No Kathleen Wynne wants to kill productivity, industry and well paying jobs.
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Bogmer Guest
@Zaltan Pfeffer
LOL that is why she poured money in subsitising industry in Ontario...Because
she wants to kill it...
Wow that is funny... I think I will go to bed now but I have a cramp....Right
under the solar plexus
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mo Guest
@Zaltan Pfeffer that's why she's known as kate and the destroyers!
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Disambiguation Guest
Justin once again sprouting platitudes, taking a swipe at Harper,
and offering no concrete strategy whatsoever.
Yes, Justin, "There is a tremendous opportunity for Canada to play a role
in the world's supply chains, we just have to have a government that's
dedicated to that" - waffle on regardless....
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We Vote CBC! Guest
@Disambiguation
Better than harper's lies and deceptions.
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BobsOpinion Guest
@Disambiguation
All Harper has done is become a multi-millionaire while adding about two
hundred billion to our national dept.
Worst PM in Canadian history.
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casino logic Guest
Harper has negotiated around new trade deals , Asia, Pacific, Europe, South
America, and so on.
Thats the first thing. Go out and find out what the "customers" want
and how to maximixe delivery and services.
Obviously, as orders and demands are created we need manufacturing to meet
those needs.
Justin Trudeau is right. His observation is a good one. Just a little obvious
and about ten years late.
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Rob Guest
@casino logic
Yes... he "traded" all of Alberta's oil for a temporary loan of two
panda's. What a GREAT deal.
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Calgary is now my Home Guest
@Rob The oil belongs to Alberta, not to ottawa, canada or harper.
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unequal partner Guest
@Calgary is now my Home
LOL
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mimi Guest
@Calgary is now my Home Keep it then.
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Ashleigh Guest
"There is a canoe and a paddle and my Dad....."
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Seamus Conn Guest
Of Course Canada needs a manufacturing strategy - as much as it needs a democratic reform strategy; and a fairness for the middle class strategy; a ship building strategy; an undo every tea party economic experiment harper has attempted strategy; a truth and reason strategy; a catching up after a decade of public enterprise mismanagement and neglect strategy; ... the list goes on.
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Freewisdomforu Guest
Robots are just as accurate and efficient in Mexico as they are here.
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RustBeltON Guest
@Freewisdomforu
MANUFACTURING is just as accurate and efficient in Canada, as it is anywhere
else in the world, and more so, once we actually start manufacturing again.
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buddhawest Guest
@Freewisdomforu
I guess that's why we are a world leader in manufacturing robotics products ...
manufacturing is bigger than what the Chinese offer at Walmarts.
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A true canadian Guest
@RustBeltON
Actually you would be incorrect.
If you read the story about Mexico's auto industry and why they are taking more
of the work previously done in Canada, it was about productivity and
efficiency.
The Mexicans are now more productive than Union Canadian workers. Mexico also
has free trade with countries which has
been beneficial to them.
Here's the CBC story so you won't cry foul.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/carmakers-say-adios-to-canada-as-mexico-shifts-into-higher-gear-... » more
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Rob in Calgary Guest
Yes we need an improved manufacturing strategy and it needs to be directly connected to the high value business ecosystems where Canada can lead. Business ecosystems such as; energy, transportation, mining and agriculture. These industries need thousands of different products for the ecosystem to be high value and a global leader so we can also enjoy exports. No need to manufacture Cheerios but a great need to innovate and manufacture items that maximizes resource efficiency.
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Western Politico Guest
Ridiculous plank. Canada's wage rates are too high to compete! Businesses move south every yr.
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BobsOpinion Guest
@Western Politico
Harper wrote a thesis on reducing Canadian wages.
Not a friend of the working Canadian.
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mimi Guest
I saw an ad recently from Cameroon. We just signed a FIPA and trade deal with that country. They were saying how glad they were to get Canadian investment. No mention of Cameroon investment here. Fast and the conservatives have signed dozens and dozens of FIPAS and free trade deals since . In fact they brag about the numbers all of the time. I would to know what Canada gets from all of these deals. The FIPA we signed with China locks us in for years and they can sue cities, provinces... » more
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Mr. Dooley Guest
JT wants carbon taxes and environmental regulations and more taxes
out the wahzoo. I wonder how many jobs he had in any factory, or any job for
that matter.
Some strategy.
Dictator Wynne is going to install the carbon tax in Ontario to further
decimate the economy and has put a new excise tax on jet fuel so flying can be
more expensive.
How these Liberals get support is beyond me.
They are for raising the GST too and Wynne kicked us in the wallet with the
last round of punishments.
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mimi Guest
@Mr. Dooley I wonder how many jobs Harper had other than political jobs? I know he worked as a mail clerk, then he worked for Mulroney, Manning, the the NCC with a mandate to destroy Universal Health Care, sort of for Stockwell Day and then he took over the amalgamation of the Reform Alliance and Progressive Conservatives(CRAP for short). In between all of that he belonged to the Northern Foundation and was in flint with the Council for National Policy in the US. By the way excise taxes... » more
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worndown Guest
Trudeau is correct we need a strategy other than the one Harper has
shown.
Harper gave large US corporations Caterpillar and US steel large amounts of
government money which they used to buy manufacturing in Canada and close the
operations down. Harper had his picture taken in London waving from a
locomotive when he gave the money to Caterpillar.
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Macanta Guest
Of course Canada needs a manufacturing strategy. It is long past time for Canada to engage in value-added activities instead of being just a resource for foreign manufacturing. We need jobs here. Why can't Harper see that? Maybe because he cares only about the corporate world and not one bit about the nation.
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bca Guest
@Macanta Who will work for . cents an hour, or $ /hr. to make a shirt you can buy in the store nicely wrapped for $? Canada cannot compete with offshore markets. At least in Ontario , everything involved in doing business for manufacturing is too expensive. Energy, governance, taxes, wages, and even the lawsuits for cancelled contracts.
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Macanta Guest
@bca
Canadians can complete by improving skills and training and focusing on
particular products. We need to leave behind old mindsets and focus on products
that need particular skill sets and creativity. We need a national strategy,
not a roll-over-and-die attitude.
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NoKoolaid Guest
Well spoken Justin Trudeau. Thank God for some leadership in Canada. Harper put all of Canada's economic eggs into a one horse tar sands pony economic gamble, a known to be very volatile sector and at the same time he ignored all other economic sectors and regions of Canada. You're the PM of CANADA Steve, not the Premier of Alberta. Canadians can't withstand four more years of Harper's fiscal incompetency. Heave Steve in Fifteen !!! Flush the C.R.A.P. in October !!!
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Western Politico Guest
@NoKoolaid Jettison Justin in ! Stop socialist Tommy.
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NoKoolaid Guest
@Western Politico
LOL. Jettison? The Liberals and the NDP aren't in power!
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Western Politico Guest
Who is feeding the oil millionaire this nonsense?
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BobsOpinion Guest
@Western Politico
OIL MILLIONAIRE?
JT is a well-read family man who was raised in the global diplomatic community
with a Liberal father and a Conservative grandfather . . . Harper worked in an
oil company mail-room.
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Sensible One Guest
Mulcair has been saying this for years.
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Big Fat Cat Guest
more fabricating a manufacturing strategy for the sheep to believe in.
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Canadian Guest
If you say something to people who are not educated, they may not understand. Therefore, they will laugh and make fun of it. What Conservatives are doing at Ottawa, is what Rob Ford did in Toronto. No one could give any suggestion to Rob Ford because he would not understand so he would not take it as serious.
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Undefeated Guest
He is right.
About time someone woke up to that!
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Ashleigh Guest
@Undefeated
Yes good old "someone" best "wake up"!
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PetuniaRose Guest
The problem with things the auto manufacturers in Canada is that the union bosses tell the employees are they God's gift to Earth, so we end up with low productivity, high-wage workers. The car manufacturers naturally move production to places that have more productive, less expensive workers.
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inuk of the north Guest
"We have an extraordinarily skilled and educated workforce with
a capacity to be creative and to work hard."
And Justin wants them making crap that sells at Wal-Mart.
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Canadian Guest
@inuk of the north
You don't agree that we have smart people. Please do some research to find out
about it. It is the responsibility of the government to give opportunity to
those smart people.
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Ashleigh Guest
@Canadian
Now let me see if I follow correctly. SmartiePants needs a government?
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Western Politico Guest
Canada needs a motherhood and apple pie strategy. More JT platitudes
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johoho Guest
Of course it does. And every party has one ...except for the Conservative Party. I'm afraid the Cons are mired in the colonial past when we were merely hewers of trees, drawers of water and moles. The Cons are by far the worst gov't in Canada's history and it's leader, the worst of our pms. I hope never to see that party elected again , in my life time.
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chocolatemoose Guest
Whoa! Is this guy out of touch. It's already happening, at least, for this business which managed to figure it out without spending millions of tax payers money on yet another commitee: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/things-that-work-twin-otters-reincarnation-is-flying-high/article/
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David in Alberta Guest
I see the crew trying to shape public opinion is out in force again. Another Liberal plank so attack away and pretend it is a bad plank. A bad plank is the latest Conservative attack ad which shows Mr. Harper, all alone, and even admitting he made some errors. Conservative codswallop, Harper isn't alone, he is surrounded by his coterie of hand picked cronies and criminals. Even Harper wants to distance himself from the Conservatives. A complete failure. F-
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Fred Flinstone Guest
every once in a while there is a paradigm shift in every country`s development , The industrial revolution ,development of Gasoline , the building of the railroads,the automobile. all these unified the country through employment Today the shift is towards the reduction of fossil fuel use and the protection of the environment. Having said that ,it seems obvious to me that we as a country should work together ,as with the building of the railroads, to rebuilding our infrastructure to accommodate... » more
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Atrus Guest
@Fred Flinstone
This poorly thought out strategy would literally bankrupt all of Canada and
provide very little good. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HKdXgHs
Canada needs visionary leadership, but practical ones.
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Warrholm Guest
Oh, Mr Holder. That's such a weak a&s criticism. How about you tell us what the Conservative strategy for manufacturing is?
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robinalta Guest
If Ontario wants to attract manufacturers they have to get hydro costs under control.
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Wray Guest
@robinalta
No chance of that happening; the Ontario Liberals are all for the privatization
of their electricity generating assets and privateers only raise prices in
order to ensure profit growth year after year after year.
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onsecondthought Guest
I much of what Trudeau has to say and am becoming increasingly tired of the same dummy down rhetoric continually spewed by this Con Gov't
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Mater Guest
He's right. Canada has needed a manufacturing strategy since when his daddy got elected.
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RustBeltON Guest
@Mater
His daddy helped fuel Technology and Engineering,..., big time, both Low, and
High Tech, in Canada.
Ontario alone boomed, early on, with the help of Davis as well.
Now go and count what Clark or Mulrooney did for our Canada?
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mickey moore Guest
This plant processes all employment applications from the head office in Distict X so apply on line. Do not show up at our door for work. We primarily use our own employment agent that we may or may not have controlling interest in.They will pay you minimum wage and we will take kickbacks and tax deductions. Often we will utilize government programs jobs for corporate welfare and temporary worker programs since there is a shortage of qualified people. We wish you the best of luck in your... » more
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RustBeltON Guest
@mickey moore
Exactly, years of Harper has amounted to
that ?!
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dalton Guest
Holder is just repeating the same talking points given to him by the PMO. The PMO must record these talking points and send them to each Conservative candidate and tell them just repeat this. I don't know if these Conservative candidates are real people with there own ideas or just robots repeating the same thing over and over again. It's just plain weird.
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risottoqueen Guest
After Trudeau said he admires dictatorship Communist China and made a "joke" about Putin invading Ukraine, he lost my vote.
month ago
risottoqueen Guest
@risottoqueen ................and.............PM Harper is the only leader to lead with prudence and maturity.
month ago
BobsOpinion Guest
@risottoqueen
JT is a well-read family man who was raised in the global diplomatic community
with a Liberal father and a Conservative grandfather . . . Harper worked in an
oil company mail-room.
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Seamus Conn Guest
Trudeau's beautiful features will be on Canada's money some day. And, harper's will be on a Participation sign - about a plan.
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andrew Guest
Hair he goes again, putting his shiny hoof in his mouth.
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BobsOpinion Guest
@andrew
JT is a well-read family man who was raised in the global diplomatic community
with a Liberal father and a Conservative grandfather . . . Harper worked in an
oil company mail-room.
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Carl Guest
How about we launch a buy Canadian campaign? Oh wait we have nothing
made in Canada anymore!!!!!!
Then how about higher tariffs on all manufactured goods coming into Canada for
sale here?
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andrew Guest
Canada says Liberals need a leadership strategy.
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Roblin Guest
That's it? We need a strategy! That's the campaign? I truly hope I get to personally meet JT. I want to put a "Why to go, you!" sticker on his hockey helmet.
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Lance Butterworth Guest
Canada needs more temporary foreign workers!!!!
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Patrick Guest
This sounds strange? Starting with a Strategy before sprinkling hard
earned money across the country randomly. This would probably mean working with
the Premiers, Unions and International leaders instead of throwing darts at the
wall and cross threading objectives that only lead to chaos, waste and
destruction?
We might even try to mend bridges with our enemies "Russia, China, the
President of the US, the Pope...scientists...environmentalist...a very long
list.
The good thing is the country can take a zero base approach....because we would
be starting from nothing.« less
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Ashleigh Guest
@johoho
And of course before you decided to proclaim that "[The Current Government
of Canada is] by far the worst gov't in Canada's history and it's leader, the
worst of our [PMs]" you spent no time whatsoever searching out the history
of every government and every PM up until now.
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johoho Guest
@Ashleigh - Usually I'd ignore you but I'd hate to disappoint you by not responding. It was part of my job. Taught Canadian history for a heck of a long time. Yes...Harper wins in the "worst" catagory. And I've witnessed few parties as talent-challenged as the ReformiCons. The "Party of One" book title exists for a reason. But I recommend you keep the faith. It suits you.
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Ashleigh Guest
@johoho
So you would be a name-calling retired teacher?
Sure am glad none of mine (ours) were blessed with attending your ignorant
sessions.
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seniorgoodguy Guest
Trudeau.........the "STRAW MAN".
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Kevin OConnor Guest
Totally clueless.
Here's our manufacturing stradegy.
All the jobs got sold out to third world countries so that the business friends
of political parties could make a higher profit (parties the Liberals).
The manufacturing is coming back , but not the jobs, by way of D printers who
will do all the work , and now no one will have "manufacturing jobs"
, they'll just load a job into the printer and come back the next day and it's
finished.
That's our manufacturing stradegy. In fact ,... » more
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seniorgoodguy Guest
Until Canada is able to deal with Unions and that of their excessive
demands that are killing this country and that of it's manufacturing
industry.....it will only get worse as Canada fails to adapt and change to
GLOBAL MANUFACTURING CHANGE THAT IS TAKING PLACE ALL AROUND THE WORLD IN
COUNTRIES Taiwan........China.......India.......Mexico
which......ARE ADAPTING AND AUTOMATING.
This along with their far less demands and far less costs from their workers
will for the forseeable futute put... » more
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We Vote CBC! Guest
@seniorgoodguy
Great. Kill off the unions and pay Canadian workers $ hour, Mexico does.
month ago
So? Guest
@seniorgoodguy
Yup. Everyone should work for $/day they
do in India. Is that what you mean by adapting?
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We Vote CBC! Guest
@We Vote CBC!
Oops - replied to the wrong post. Sorry.
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seniorgoodguy Guest
@So?
See what I mean about...."UNION" MENTALITIES"...!
Your a prime example.
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A true canadian Guest
@We Vote CBC!
Actually assembly workers in Mexico make $- /hour which is a decent wage there.
Cost of living is less so its not a fair comparison. For the company though it
is a huge savings. Instead of paying - CAD / hour for less productive
manufacturing they get better value.
If Canadian manufacturing was more productive the value would be better. Also
lower utility rates would be helpful. (especially in Ontario)
At this point we would have to be similar to the Peso to regain... » more
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AgitatedUser Guest
@seniorgoodguy
"UNIONS being a significant big reason why CANADA IS LOSING IN
MANUFACTURING"
Except that unions have been in existence for a lot longer than the loss of
manufacturing and if the calculations are right the average total compensation
today has the same impact on the economy per capita as it did in .
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Kevin OConnor Guest
"We have an extraordinarily skilled and educated workforce with
a capacity to be creative and to work hard."
In any thing but manufacturing. Because the chimney sweeps, those jobs are gone. We
switched to oil furnaces , no more chimney sweeps needed no matter how skilled
they are, thanks for playing.
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Chris Hatherley Guest
Trudeau's position on ISIS is pathetic.
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BobsOpinion Guest
@Chris Hatherley
The Tribal War in the middle-east has been going on for centuries . . . it is a
middle-east problem that requires a middle-east solution. Arabs have huge
resources while Canada is heavily in dept.
Canadian tax-payers should not be supporting this war.
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Bogmer Guest
Maybe if we had a oposition leader that wouldn't ask the same
questions for years and focus on making this country a better place we would
have a functional government.
Guess what Mulcair. They heard you the first time you said it. You didn't need
to repeat it times to get noticed. That is other questions that might have been good to
ask.
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displacdwestern Guest
Ed Holder, the Conservative MP for London West is not up to the job!
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inuk of the north Guest
Manufacturing jobs as a % of total jobs peaked in the s and have been in steady decline since. It's a phenomenon in the st world called de-industrialization. Welcome to the party Justin, but you're years late.
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Ashleigh Guest
@inuk of the north
Now Now.
The last thing that this Giant Left Echo Chat Room crowd needs to know about is
a dose of reality headed towards young Trudeau.
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BobsOpinion Guest
@inuk of the north
Germany has one of the strongest manufacturing sectors in the world . . . their
government works with the unions and workers . . . not against.
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shaftturner Guest
you dont encourage manufacturing by raising taxes....
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Bring Back our Canada - Guest
@shaftturner - That's why I don't want to vote for the NDP - who are
the only party wanting to raise taxes on corporations.
Mulcair even gaffed last week, by stating he thought Canada's corporate tax was
% less than it actually is.
However, Trudeau will raise taxes on the elite to % - ensuring that
corporations can keep their competitive advantage (yet, Mr. Fatcat can't
purchase an th home on the Mediterranean Sea).
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Bring Back our Canada - Guest
Trudeau will also lower taxes for the middle class.
This would be a tangible tax decrease for the middle class.
Not a tax reduction for Harper's rich backers
(disguised as a reduction for middle class taxpayers).
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seniorgoodguy Guest
There is one word to highlight what Trudeau speaks of yet refuses to
openly bring into the discussion as to why...CANADA IS LOSING SO BADLY IN
MANUFACTURING AND WILL CONTINUE TO DO SO IN THE YEARS TO COME.
That word is.......UNIONS.
UNION EXCESSIVE DEMANDS...especially in this "new global world of
competition" that we now find ourselves in is what is "KILLING
MANUFACTURING IN CANADA".
Its not just Canada that is "automating" but SO TOO IS THE WHOLE
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We Vote CBC! Guest
@seniorgoodguy
Great. Let's kill the unions and pay Canadian workers $ an hour.
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seniorgoodguy Guest
@We Vote CBC!
Typical UNION MENTALLITY.
One extreme...to the other.
NICE
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Harper's Psychiatrist Guest
@We Vote CBC!
That is what the Conservatives want ...... they're just unable to think it
through.
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We Vote CBC! Guest
@seniorgoodguy
Typical con thinking. No idea of what they are talking about.
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mimi Guest
@seniorgoodguy I'm an old lady and have never belonged to a union. Even I have heard the talk about 'right to work' legislation.Get rid of unions and force people to work for nothing so we can compete with your 'globalization ". Bring all workers in all countries to a level playing field, so no one country has an advantage. Everyone will be the same. In other words make all workers slaves to a very few "experts" in the global economy who will run the world. Don't worry , your favourite... » more
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AgitatedUser Guest
@seniorgoodguy
So manufacturing has been on a slide wince when the trade union act was enacted?
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Zaltan Pfeffer Guest
bogmer opines, 'Zaltan Pfeffer: But he (Trudeau the Dauphin) does
hang around Astronauts and retired Generals... Harper was only a mail room
clerk and hangs around child molesters and Gents Club managers."
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Yes, I hung around once next to a Nuclear Physicist and a Woman with a PhD in
Astrophysics. I guess that makes me a rocket scientist.
Trudeau hoped by Osmosis that a hour
meeting with economists would make himself smart in the world of finance.
Trudeau is such a... » more
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Bogmer Guest
@Zaltan Pfeffer
% of success is the people you hang around with. You want somebody that hides
in Closets acts a year old then hang around people that year
olds
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tony Guest
Justin is in and Harper has to go OUT!
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Seamus Conn Guest
On Thursday, Holder said this "will be part of his high-tax
plan on Canadians" and Trudeau's policies "will devastate our
region's manufacturing sector, further proof that he is just not ready to be
prime minister."
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Sad little man with a sad little talking point spiked with an silly little
barb. Anybody could do a better job with harper's promise of jobs, growth and
long term proseperity. And, lookie here, the worst is yet to come with two
quarters of contraction in the economy,... » more
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seniorgoodguy Guest
Liberal Justin Trudeau has said and promised SO MUCH in the last two
or so weeks that I doublt if he were asked to NAME THEM ALL......he would in
all probability fail miserably in attempting to name them all.
Trudeau is nothing but a door-to-door carpet bagger promising all but the world
in order to get elected to the one thing he cherishes and places above all
other things in his life.......to become prime mininster knowing of him
that......NOTHING ELSE WILL DO.
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Bring Back our Canada - Guest
@seniorgoodguy - At one point, you complained that Trudeau had no
policies. Now he has too many??
I can easily name all the Liberal policies released in the past weeks - (and I am certainly not leadership
material).
Trudeau's policy rollout speeches were nothing short of brilliant.
month ago
seniorgoodguy Guest
@Bring Back our Canada -
Your a dreamer.......just him.
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Bring Back our Canada - Guest
@seniorgoodguy - The Liberals repaid billion of national debt during their previous run - while Harper and his banking buddies have accumulated billion of national debt for us to repay. This is not dreaming.
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seniorgoodguy Guest
@Bring Back our Canada -
ANY GOVERNMENT OF THE DAY.....could have accomplished that little trick..HAD
THEY TOO.......OPENED UP ACCESS TO THE BILLIONS IN THE E.I. FUND......!
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mimi Guest
@seniorgoodguy And Harper? The last conservative government Mulroney) had Canada on the ropes financially. We are heading for another recession at least according to real economists with real work experience in the field. Harper's stay the course doesn't seem to be working very well so what's his plan to avoid another recession in less than six years? Canada can't afford Harper any longer, not financially or mentally.
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mimi Guest
@seniorgoodguy Do you think Harper hasn't been using the EI fund? You are the one that's dreaming. Even using it it's questionable as to whether the books are really balanced.
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BobsOpinion Guest
@seniorgoodguy
JT is a well-read family man who was raised in the global diplomatic community
with a Liberal father and a Conservative grandfather . . . Harper worked in an
oil company mail-room.
And you are just an ignorant, angry old man.
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JOHN MCTAGGART Guest
@seniorgoodguy
Better a dreamer than a failure.
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Merv Guest
"Justin Trudeau says Canada needs a manufacturing
strategy"
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Diversification, what I mostly hear about in the news when it comes to
manufacturing these days is the auto sector. What does Germany do?
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proportional over partisan: balance sheets don't lie Guest
@Merv leads the world in many areas of advanced manufacturing, and we can too. We have people just as skilled, can can attract others from around the world, and we have the space and resources too.
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Spiff Guest
To whom would JT sell Canada, his Russian and Iranian friends?
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David in Alberta Guest
@Spiff Iranian friends? Comprehension issues?
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Tublairy Guest
How can our manufacturing sectors compete with Mexico and China as long as we have free trade? We can't. Also, who wants to work in a factory now? Technologies, tourism, education, agriculture, creative industries and the are areas we should target.
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T Laughing Lion Guest
@Tublairy - Two ways; Quality & and having a niche.
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edwinpeter Guest
@Tublairy How does Germany compete with the world, and success, using their brains and having intelligent Leadership, and a Plan, so honest companies can plan their future, and investments.
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BobsOpinion Guest
@Tublairy
We need a diverse economy which includes a strong manufacturing base.
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Bogmer Guest
The only way to really promote Canadians Manufacturing with Canadians is to find a way to produce products at a competitive cost. There is no reason why it's cheaper for a product to be shipped across a Ocean and be cheaper than we can make it. Maybe we need manufacturing in Manitoba instead of Southern Ontario. Just a thought.
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NoKoolaid Guest
Conservative supporters think that Harper is the party's greatest asset and the best thing since sliced bread, but I suspect that party executives have realized that Harper is a big dead, rotting albatross around their neck going into October. Baird, MacKay, Moore and many other in Cons caucus figured it out and ejected early.
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Western Politico Guest
@NoKoolaid Sick response. Moore resigned to be with a very sick child.
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NoKoolaid Guest
@Western Politico
It wasn't about Wilfred ?
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Western Politico Guest
Canada cant compete in the manufacturing sector. Wages and benefits are too high. Businesses move south.
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worndown Guest
@Western Politico Cost of producing the tar sands bitumen is very high also.
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fromthevalley Guest
Now that we have recovered from Dutch disease, manufacturing will do better.
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Seamus Conn Guest
@fromthevalley
Mulcair was right and got nothing but Reformacon scorn. Dion with carbon pricing.
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stillnojustice Guest
I would have thought that Trudeau would have known that our minimum
wage cannot compete with $ a month (slave operations) in Asia and Mexico.
Until he exposes the root cause and effect that NAFTA and other special
interest "trade deals" has had on Canadians, that has allowed both
the Liberals and Tories to justify the %ers of Canada closing of plants and the
exporting of ,,? Canadian manufacturing jobs to these rd world dictatorships,
his talk about revitalizing the manufacturing... » more
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Western Politico Guest
@stillnojustice NAFTA has been great for Canada. Dont drink the union kool aid.
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Wray Guest
"We need to make sure that we're pitching Canadians' advantage
over other countries to draw in global investment," he told CBC Radio's
Afternoon Drive in an interview.
Relying on American investment to advance Canada's manufacturing sector has
proven to be a disastrous mistake. Why would we create the same conditions for
failure by relying on foreign global investment?
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Zaltan Pfeffer Guest
EfficientChange notes, 'Well it is true that our manufacturing seems
to be dieing out.
When half our food, almost all our clothes, furniture, electronics and consumer
items are imported goods it really makes your wonder how our trade equation can
even be close to balanced.'
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We have a LOT of good raw products that the world needs. So long as we are
selling them for market price, we can afford to import those things we need.
It IS balanced; our lifestyle as one of the top ... » more
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Mark.. Guest
Doesn't matter what he says, when it comes time to vote he'll support whatever Harper's plan is, just C-.
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BobsOpinion Guest
@Mark..
I don't think so.
JT is a well-read family man who was raised in the global diplomatic community
with a Liberal father and a Conservative grandfather . . . Harper worked in an
oil company mail-room.
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georgeg Guest
well the prok industry brought the frozen product back to Canada.
Pork is the cheapest meat in store these days after Alberta pulled the same
strategy they use with supply and demand with oil and gas, to charge more for
their beef.
I fixed that inequity.
no more junk from China-Dollarama.
If corporations/business moves their company from Canada to China, Mexico or
the USA charge more our resources that get shipped to China, don't allow
foreign countries to buy up Canadian commodities-CNOC,... » more
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Auntie Elite Guest
Under the terms of so-called international trade agreements, federal governments of all political stripes have been destroying Canada's manufacturing sector for several decades by helping to relocate manufacturing and jobs overseas. Does anyone expect that any of the party leaders - all committed globalists - will do anything different?
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swamprat Guest
As per usual, Trudeau comes out with a vague idea but of course, no
actual plan.
"We need a National plan." Sure JT, what is your plan?
I'm really tired of all parties saying stuff this. When you ask them what they'd do about
it you get, well............................duh.
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RustBeltON Guest
@swamprat
Atleast Trudeau admits, ( all other Canadians as well), that there is a
dangerous decline of Manufacturing in canada, and much worse so, over the last years.
Whereas Harper ( from within his Closet) simply denies there are any problems
whatsoever?
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AgitatedUser Guest
@swamprat
"Trudeau comes out with a vague idea but of course, no actual plan"
You make him sound the Conservatives.
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BobsOpinion Guest
@swamprat
JT is a well-read family man who was raised in the global diplomatic community
with a Liberal father and a Conservative grandfather . . . Harper worked in an
oil company mail-room.
JT also has a strong Liberal Team supporting him . . . Harper has obedient
lap-dogs in his Party of One.
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RustBeltON Guest
wow, Mods and gers are out in full force again.?
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A true canadian Guest
@RustBeltON
Well when you add nothing of substance to a story or commentary, its not hard
to understand why.
Trudeau is pandering to voters, trying to get his election campaign going.
The Liberals know they are not in the lead for left of center votes and are
trying to bribe as many as they can to regain some traction.
Anyone with big picture vision can see through Famous last name's agenda.
But I hear lemmings have bad vision...
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Working Slave Guest
Would that be the one the NDP have been asking for (for ever) but the liberals never would support, why doesn't Justin join the NDP if he has developed such an admiration for their policies, I will still be voting for the NDP.
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Bring Back our Canada - Guest
@Working Slave - Mulcair gaffed last week - and stated that Canada's
corporate tax was "around or %"..
Canada's corporate tax rate has been % since ..
Remember that Mulcair has been promising to pay for his massive daycare plan
with a corporate tax hike.. (Yet, Mulcair didn't even know the rate).... Each
corporate tax percentage represents . billion dollars.
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AgitatedUser Guest
@Bring Back our Canada -
"Each corporate tax percentage represents . billion dollars."
. Billion dollars of what? Revenue for the government? Might as well eliminate
it then if it counts for so little.
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mitchsk Guest
With one caveat Justin, no more freebies for corporations, and hard written rules about job creation within the borders of Canada, if they leave any and all taxes are due in full with no exceptions.
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seniorgoodguy Guest
Heres your answer Trudeau regarding manufacturing in Canada.
Even blind workers in Canada know that manufacturing is all about
competing..WITH THE WORLD......THAT IS.
WAKE UP TRUDEAU.....ITS A NEW DAWN IN THE WORLD.
NOTHING ELSE MATTERS and for that reason alone, as Canada watches more and more
UNION jobs leaving the country to countries Taiwan......India......China......now Mexico
in droves.......we are reminded of the new world global shift from the days of
union demands and union... » more
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seniorgoodguy Guest
@mimi
The only person here that said......"Canada, is just a country with people
that should just be used......" is YOU.
And with a mindset that.....LITTLE
WONDER CANADA IS LOSING IN MANUFACTURING with a future that will only get
worse.
month ago
AgitatedUser Guest
@seniorgoodguy
So then what will happen when workers in Tiawan, India, China and Mexico
unionize and start to demand wages that are liveable and working conditions
that don't kill them?
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Angus "The Gay Redneck" MacNeil Guest
Get ride of Nanny Wynne, her ilk, and their failed "green"
scheme energy plan and manufacturing will boom again.
The CDN $ is at a good level for trading CDN goods as well.
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Wray Guest
Trudeau also said he believes that the automotive sector will
continue to be a key industry in the near future, and one in which Canada has
"tremendous advantages."
The only way the automotive sector will continue to be a key industry is if
Canadians have crown corporations designing and manufacturing those
automobiles.
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The true cost of capital Guest
“We have an extraordinarily skilled and educated workforce” - The
vast majority of Canadian workforce is lazy, stupid, entitled and cannot
compete in the global economy. Our manufacturing workforce is our star example.
Canadian workers want to fasten five lug nuts onto a car and make $, a year
doing it.
There will be no middle class in Canada in fifteen years, there will only be
two types of workers: The educated, skilled, and creative workforce that
employers will fight over and everyone... » more
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John Gee Guest
Tuesday January th,
( months ahead of Justin)
“Small and medium-sized businesses create the most jobs in Canada and it’s time
we help them out,” NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair said in a speech to the Economic
Club of Canada in Ottawa Tuesday.
The plan includes a promise to cut the small business tax rate — one percentage
point at a time — from to per cent.
The NDP said the first small business tax cut, which the party promised to
implement immediately after forming government, would... » more
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Bogmer Guest
It's all well and good to say that you want Canadians to produce
quality products. Problem is that Canadians buy throw away Chinese trash.
The only way to really promote Canadians Manufacturing with Canadians is to
find a way to produce products at a competitive cost. There is no reason why
it's cheaper for a product to be shipped across a Ocean and be cheaper than we
can make it. Maybe we need manufacturing in Manitoba instead of Southern
Ontario. Just a thought.
month ago
WhoaWhatWT Guest
@bogmer How so that it would be cheaper in Manitoba? Do you think
people in Manitoba will work cheaper than those in Southern Ontario?
Seems to me the manufacturing industries in Ontario were/are mainly supplying a
large market south of the border, not the world. That market is now buying from
the world not Ontario.
There are many reasons that goods can be shipped over the ocean and be cheaper.
Most of them are not pretty.
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uoysevolnatas Guest
Unskilled / marginally-skilled labour is too expensive and uncompetitive in Canada.
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Canadian Guest
Unfortunately, Conservatively has been focusing how to create attack ad that undermine other opposition leaders. Instead, it should have focused on increasing GDP.
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John Gee Guest
"We have an extraordinarily skilled and educated workforce with
a capacity to be creative and to work hard." --------- Justin Trudeau
Oh yeah Justin, our extraordinarily skilled and educated workforce is by and
large skilled and educated to only do each others laundry ie. provide services
to one another and not to design, develop and manufacture products consumers
and industries around the World desire.
We have for one hundred years had a branch plant economy, a monopolistic
business... » more
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yokelman Guest
Get the unions out of manufacturing, the unions decimated Ontario manufacturing.
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mickey moore Guest
The or cent dollar doesn't work anymore?
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Danming Guest
Now lately I have seen Justin's vision of Canada as a refreshing change from the current government...At least he has the vision to see that our manufacturing is flushed down the toilet and it ticks me off after so many billions of dollars to prop up our auto manufacturing to see it sold to the Mexicans. CBC assault, CRTC and Cable Television assault, bones to the rich and elite, assault on the Federal Supreme Court, and on and on and on.....and nothing while we support this nonsensical... » more
month ago
Ashleigh Guest
@Danming
Why can I actually hear you?
Oh yeah I remember now ... kids.
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Angus "The Gay Redneck" MacNeil Guest
The manufacturing heart of Canada is ON and QC, they also have the
most "Progressive" approach to business.
Progressivism is destroying manufacturing.
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EfficientChange Guest
Well it is true that our manufacturing seems to be dieing out.
When half our food, almost all our clothes, furniture, electronics and consumer
items are imported goods it really makes your wonder how our trade equation can
even be close to balanced.
I really doubt he can do anything about it without seriously changing our
monetary and economic system though.
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Grassroots Guest
The NDP have been saying this for over years. I am tired of Chinese junk. I wan to see Canadians working for decent wages.
month ago
The true cost of capital Guest
@Grassroots I'd to see Canadians get competitive skills and education so a decent wage is justified. $, - $, for a high school graduate to install a bumper on a Carolla is not a reasonable expectation to have
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Magooc Guest
What we need is Town Hall meetings organized by the major Media,
That ordinary Canadians could ask direct question to the party leaders, who
want to participate. If Harper does not want to participate so be it, we can
ask the others Including Green party. ait should be monitored by the Anchor and
Paper main Editor. Have them across Canada main cities. Ask banks to pay for
them, and they could be the sponsor advertisers.
No partisan type of forum, Plain open to public, via In person, telephone,... » more
month ago
Ashleigh Guest
@Magooc
Screw "the real POLLS Oct ".
Sounds too much "real CHEESE".
We us all Canadians want unreal CHEESE and unreal Polls.
When?
real SOON!
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bca Guest
Young Trudeau can say all he wants he doesn't have a job. Did he ever have a job?
month ago
Tom Mulcair's mortgage broker Guest
@bca he was a substitute drama teacher
month ago
BobsOpinion Guest
@bca
JT is a well-read family man who was raised in the global diplomatic community
with a Liberal father and a Conservative grandfather . . . Harper worked in an
oil company mail-room.
month ago
georgeg Guest
@Fernando
Harper is a failure
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tdot Guest
What, a Liberal leader stating that jobs in Ontario should be Canada's focus. Say it aint so.
month ago
BobsOpinion Guest
@tdot
Jobs in all of Canada are important to JT . . . not so much so for Harper and
his Party of One.
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Tom Mulcair's mortgage broker Guest
Justin need a bozo eruption strategy. NOW
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Michael Miles Guest
Before we can do something about the economy we must take a good
hard look at how our money is made and what the repercussions of printing money
out of thin air really are.
At present the Central bank and Reserve system are completely controlling how
our economy's health is. Our banks will take every dollar that you put in for
safe keeping and immediately loan out % of the dollar you put in. The only
reason you can draw it back out is because the banks hope there will not be a
sudden panic and... » more
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JJJ Guest
liberal strategy.....?laughable..
liberal couldn't help Nortel..RIM
except free money to ontario teachers union..
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BobsOpinion Guest
@JJJ
JT is a well-read family man who was raised in the global diplomatic community
with a Liberal father and a Conservative grandfather . . . Harper worked in an
oil company mail-room.
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scsparcrow Guest
Ed Holder said, "The people of southwestern Ontario are
amazingly resilient and have demonstrated that moving beyond
manufacturing-based employment is something they're willing to do."
Code for "there are no jobs - so you in Ontario better start looking elsewhere".Guess
this is proof - the conservatives already gave up on Ontario Manufacturing -
when your rebuttal to Trudeau is to say workers will be finding work elsewhere
in other industries...
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Warrholm Guest
@scsparcrow
That was Holder quoting Trudeau. So, in your view, Trudeau has given up on
manufacturing. Care to revise your BS?
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georgeg Guest
@Warrholm
Holder et al have been systematically destroying eastern Canada's ECONOMY.
Care to revise your BS?
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Warrholm Guest
@georgeg
I am neither a cheerleader nor a hater. I just want some accuracy in the
comments and attributions.
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Weekend Blogger Guest
As long as goods can be manufactured at a lower cost outside Canada,
then companies will manufacture outside Canada.
There's no need for a national manufacturing strategy.
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BobsOpinion Guest
@Weekend Blogger
Wrong . . . take a look at Germany's strong manufacturing community.
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sometime Guest
There years to late
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Magooc Guest
Toyota have Manufacturing plants in Ontario and they do not have Unions. They are closing the plant, they are adding models to be manufactured here. They are all over the world, They are good for the counties they are in. IF THEY WOULD NOT BE PROFITABLE HERE IN CANADA, THEY WOULD NOT HAVE BUIT THE PLANTS.
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Ashleigh Guest
@Magooc
I see.
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PetuniaRose Guest
@Magooc I think the take-away point from your post is that "they do not have Unions". Nothing kills jobs and investment unions do.
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Bogmer Guest
@Magooc
The ONLY reason Toyota has a manufacturing plant in Ontario is because when you
build a car here you get a couple of months head start on the new model year.
It's the way the laws are structured here.
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PetuniaRose Guest
Trudeau also said he believes that the automotive sector will
continue to be a key industry in the near future, and one in which Canada has
"tremendous advantages."
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what? Our labour costs far exceed those
of the US and Mexico, and our productivity is far below the US and Mexico. If
Canada is losing auto jobs with the dollar at cents, how would we ever compete when the
dollar next rises to parity? Unless his plan is to... » more
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Bogmer Guest
@PetuniaRose
First of all the majority of Americans are right around the Southern Peninsula
of Ontario. We have high quality raw materials coming from just a couple of
hours away and major steel infrastructure in Hamilton.
If you ever see a delivery truck with cars on it. Notice there's only or cars on each so they are supper expensive to
ship.
The Labour today in the manufacturing business is limited to things a Robot
can't do so labour cost keep going down as technologie... » more
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Bogmer Guest
@PetuniaRose
One more thing... A low dollar is a good thing for manufacturing. If you pay
your labour in Canadian funds and sell in American funds you make more money.
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Pablo W Guest
Logged on and BS commercial on TV.
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Canadian Guest
When Justin Trudea said when you increase GDP, the budget will balance on its own. Even grade student can understand the logic behind. Unfortunately, Conservative party did not understand or did not want to understand. Instead it was focusing on how to make fun of that statement. It looks kind of bullying. Liberal should copy same strategy and play with that they Conservatives will taste the samething.
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Ashleigh Guest
@Canadian
looks kinda bullying, eh?
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rockabillyJ Guest
"On Thursday, Holder said this "will be part of his
high-tax plan on Canadians" and Trudeau's policies "will devastate
our region's manufacturing sector, further proof that he is just not ready to
be prime minister."......
You mean devastate our region's manufacturing sector even more than they
already are Ed? Jeez, that's going to be hard to do isn't it?
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Mark Sibthorpe Guest
Justin read this it will help you get elected and improve Canada's ability to compete: http://www.banknews.tv/docs/ces.pdf
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nemo Guest
Well Justin , first lets fix this----------------- http://rabble.ca/news///money-matters-comer-v-canada
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Craig na Dun Guest
Is Justin for real here?? a manufacturing strategy..i expect that is a way of saying the liberal party would spend a lot of our tax dollars on corporations in the manufacturing industries.....question is really manufacturing or just a plant to assemble parts made elsewhere? also, it appears Trudeau thinks governments should compromise the industries located in Canada...someone needs to give him a lecture on how economics works in today's world. sure is time to get rid of the folks advising... » more
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spondytoo Guest
That would mean regulatiing trade, something that the libcon party will never do. Why should any country be forced to give up their all of their domestic markets?
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Real Canuckian Guest
Canad needs a Prime Minister.
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bca Guest
@Real Canuckian We have the best now.
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TampaCanuck Guest
I'll give this clown one thing, he's a good actor. Those acting classes sure paid off. lol
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WC Guest
I take JT means the auto manufacturing industry. It should be shutdown completely. The vehicles produced generate the majority of the CO that cause "global warming, cooling, climate change...etc".
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Robert Ross Guest
While I agree we need a manufacturing strategy, it doesn't work when
the low paying jobs are oversees and you can't stop normal manufacturing from
moving oversees.
SO far we have managed to give away much of our manufacturing talents to other
countries for free, given them labour, just to supply us with lower cost,
cheaper quality goods, and higher profit margins for corporations.
What we need is something in the USA:
ITAR - a mechanism to say that certain high-tech or proprietary... » more
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Corporate Rule Guest
Set the Corporate Tax rate at %.
Give Corporations up to % in Tax Credits for the Jobs and Investments they have
here. It will still result in % Corporate Tax for Corporations that earn the
credits. This will make the Return on Investment (ROI) even, and help to level
the playing field for local and multinational corporations.
This will reward local corporations for the jobs here; and it will also be an
incentive for multinationals to keep some jobs here, to benefit from the tax
credits.
As it is, the Multinationals provide cheaply made foreign goods, and kill local
production, by small and medium size companies. And they receive the same tax
benefits as local corporations.
Use the Tax system to level the playing field between multinationals and local
companies.« less
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