Canadian Jobs Lost to the Tar Sands
Posted On January 6, 2012
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0 Just because something is a bit complicated, it doesn’t mean you can ignore it, especially when it’s hurting you.
And yet, this appears to be the case with the loss of hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs in the past several years — 627,000 by one measure — mostly in Ontario and Quebec where these jobs have historically existed.
The phenomenon even has a name already: “Dutch Disease.” Canada now has a bad case of it, yet you won’t hear the government in Ottawa talk about it, since that would run counter to its blinkered agenda of accelerating the strip mining of Northern Alberta to push more oil through pipelines to China and America. Read more…
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