Tourism due to a poor dollar is not booming. They sold to go where profits lay - elsewhere. The Feds should have doubled down when the sector was strong and forcing the US to consider refineries up North. Instead, assholes drive their beat up cars to protests against expansion, high paying jobs, and a commodity they need to survive, while posting on their plastic IFuck whatever that they are talking shit to save the world, but they are hypocrites that cannot live without oil.

I suggest you look more into economics and stop asking stupid rhetorical questions. Unless, of course, you expect stupid rhetorical responses. Slow night in Vietnanaimo I guess.

I think this Zionist shill still drives a Toyota Previa!

You think it's only tourism? Agriculture, trucking, tech, medical and the financial sector are all booming.

scheer will never get the pipe built.

i did not expect to find so much hate on Nanaimo in a thread about UK :Popcorn

the only boom i've experienced recently are in digital/tech which hire mostly foreign talent anyways

the increase in AB plates don't seem to be visitors but displaced here to find work

The Island is a retirement home. For every lazy hippie, you can find 50 unemployable face tattooed hipsters in Vancouver.

Why let something like facts and figures get in the way of a (not so) good argument?
https://business.financialpost.com/o...d-worry-us-all

Charles Lammam is director of fiscal studies and Brennan Sorge is a research intern at the Fraser Institute. The study, “Measuring Labour Markets in Canada and the United States: 2018 Edition,” is available at http://www.fraserinstitute.org.

Maybe one day you will have the honour of making a cardboard body kit for him. Then you can use the money to go to Iran, transition to a woman, and finally be at peace with yourself.

When you can't win an argument based on facts...

He's right you know!

At least that was my experience when our family had our construction business. We did the majority of our work in the lower mainland, some projects out of town like Calgary and what not.

When we had to go to the island which we did occasionally it was a nightmare to find tradesman who would show up regularly or put in a full days work. Sunny out, going boating, going fishing whatever zero fucks given. We did a few schools and a theater on the island and every time it was more economical for us to bring guys from the lower mainland, pay LOA and put them up in a hotel then it was to hire local guys and believe me we would have rather hired local.

That said the company I work for now does have a decent crew on the island but whenever they get busy past what the smallish crew can handle there we have to send them guys from our office in the Interior, Alberta or the lower mainland because generally speaking the labour force there in our industry is trash.

Also it seems like a lot of places in Vancouver is hiring IE restaurants, supermakrets, temp constructions workers. Not sure how much they paid though. One of my co workers were jokingly saying coz these places don't pay enough so they are always looking to hire.

more like people don't want to work at a job with no prestige nowadays

you will get thousands of resume for a $14/hr bank teller job, but no response for a waiter or laborer position that pays more


Gf works at a fancy, pretty famous restaurant, they get dozen of people looking to stage (i.e. work for free) every months.
While an uncle of mine who runs a typical AYCE Japanese restaurant always complain he can't hire and keep staffs for his kitchen

There is a lot more prestige telling people you work in a well-known restaurant than some obscure restaurants...even if you are a junior in the former and a higher paid head chef in the latter

It's hard to IG from McDonald's or Timmies yo

Seems appropriate...

Ex employee was posting shots from her new work place Papa Johns. She had to sneak in the phone.

Scottish Leader Threatens Independence Referendum in Case of No Deal Brexit

https://theglobepost.com/2019/07/25/...rexit-johnson/

because many of us are working two jobs

And we still have a lot of vacant jobs. Whats the solution?

Hmmm... wouldn't more of that credit apply to Obama's presidency then? But yes, #MAGA.

I think as reasonable people we can agree that domestic policy does not impact the unemployment rate nearly as much as global macroeconomic and political circumstances.

Having said that, long term average unemployment rate of the USA is 5.75%, during the Obama era unemployment peaked at 9.9% in 2009 and dropped to 4.7% by the time Trump took over the White House in 2015.

Although the reduction in unemployment by both Obama and Trump could be viewed as "impressive", I would argue that the more impressive feat is to achieve the lowest possible unemployment rate... so long as it is sustainable... and I question whether the current 3.7% unemployment rate is sustainable.

Ultimately a "healthy" unemployment rate is likely closer to the historical average, and if the US Fed was to further increase the prime lending rate (Reducing borrowing and increasing the value of the greenback and associated exports) and Trump were to reverse course on some of the tax cuts (The ones that have resulted in record corporate profits and significant increases to federal debt)... things would probably balance out quite nicely.

Sauces:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjo.../#744f1e2e1af3

https://ycharts.com/indicators/us_unemployment_rate

Meanwhile we have a financially incompetent leader and a cabinet that resembles some sort of bizarre social experiment.

McKenna - Human rights and social justice lawyer (No experience or education related to her current role of Minister of Environment and Climate Change)

Sohi - Playwright and a bus driver (No experience of education related to his current role of Minister of Natural Resources)

Freeland - A journalist and author who wrote a book about how being wealthy is evil (No experience or education related to her current role of Minister of Foreign Affairs)

^
Isn’t that what Trump also does though? Put tonnes of people who are totally unqualified in charge of very important sectors of government?

Yes, and I think both Trudeau and Trump are baboons.

However, I do prefer a gov that priorities finances and security over virtue signalling, plastic straws and peoplekind.

Have you looked at who was in harpers cabinet?

Leona Aglukkaq

Minister of the Environment 15 Jul. 2013 – 4 Nov. 2015
Minister of Health 18 May 2011 - 14 Jul 2013
Minister of the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency 30 Oct. 2008 - 14 Jul. 2013

Prior to running as an MP, Aglukkaq served on the Hamlet Council of Cambridge Bay. She was also a Government of Nunavut public servant, working for the Office of the Clerk of the Nunavut Legislature, and as the Deputy Minister of Culture, Language, Elders and Youth. Information regarding Aglukkaq's post-secondary education has never been made public. AKA not a doctor with no medical experience.


Rona Ambrose Minister of Health 15 Jul. 2013 – 4 Nov. 2015
Minister of Public Works and Government Services 9 Jan. 2010 – 15 Jul. 2013
Minister of State (Status of Women) 9 Apr. 2010 – 15 Jul. 2013
Minister of Western Economic Diversification 5 Nov. 2010 – 17 May 2011
Minister of Labour 30 Oct. 2008 – 19 Jan. 2010
President of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada 4 Jan. 2007 – 30 Oct. 2008
Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs 4 Jan. 2007 – 30 Oct. 2008
Minister of Western Economic Diversification 4 Jan. 2007 – 30 Oct. 2008
Minister of the Environment 6 Feb. 2006 – 4 Jan. 2007

Ambrose was born Ronalee Chapchuk in Valleyview, Alberta, as the daughter of Colleen (née Clark) and James Chapchuk.[11][12][13] She grew up in both Brazil and Parkland County of Alberta. In addition to English, she also speaks Portuguese and Spanish but is less fluent in French.[14] Ambrose has a Bachelor of Arts in women's and gender studies from the University of Victoria and a Master of Arts degree in political science from the University of Alberta.[14]

Again not a doctor and no medical experience.

Jason Kenney

Minister of National Defence 9 Feb. 2015 – 4 Nov. 2015
Minister of Multiculturalism and Citizenship 9 Feb. 2015 – 4 Nov. 2015
Minister of Employment and Social Development 15 Jul. 2013 – 9 Feb. 2015
Minister of Citizenship and Immigration 30 Oct. 2008 – 14 Jul. 2013
Secretary of State for Multiculturalism and Canadian Identity 4 Jan. 2007 – 30 Oct. 2008

He studied philosophy at the University of San Francisco, a Jesuit university in San Francisco, California, but failed to complete coursework.


Collage drop out with no military experience.

Can you direct me to where I celebrated Harpers cabinet appointments?

Your problem is you think that I am either conservative or liberal, I am in fact neither, I have never voted or provided any support to a political party.

I've wondered at times who was so influential to you that you ended up this way, normally spoiled kids that work for their parents and drive a supercar paid for by mommy and daddy are far less ideological.

Just pointing out that's how all governments work. Looked like you were shocked how people in the liberal cabinet had no real experience when it's common practice.