A most interesting article appeared in the Vancouver Province on the weekend. It opens as follows:
This booming town is busting at the seams, unable to keep up with the constant influx of workers who need a place to sleep, eat and spend their sizable disposable income.
Packed restaurants, full hotels, empty store shelves and shiny new trucks are the hallmarks of this northeast B.C town that is reaping the benefits of a booming oil-and-gas industry.
In a time when many British Columbians can’t find work, Dawson Creek business owners struggle every day to find staff.
A section later on caught my attention:
Dawson Creek’s mayor, Mike Bernier, in Vancouver recently for a conference, handed out business cards to Occupy Vancouver protesters, promising them he would find them jobs in Dawson Creek, provided they are hard workers.
“We have basically zero unemployment in Dawson Creek – it’s the lowest in the province,” Bernier said.
While the protesters he talked to said they wouldn’t take him up on his offer, he still encourages others to move to the city.
They should be so lucky!
“While the protesters he talked to said they wouldn’t take him up on his offer, he still encourages others to move to the city.”
Whaddya expect??? These so-called “Occupiers” want HANDOUTS, handouts they are ENTITLED to.
A job; we don need no stinkin’ JOB!
He was trying to recruit fleabaggers?
Hmpfff. Maybe he figured those gaseous tards could drive the windmills or somethin’…
The OWSrs do not want a job they want money in the mail …. your money!
Its too hard to feel righteously indignant and morally superior to those around you when you are working hard to earn your living, so this work thing doesn’t really appeal to the OWS crowd.
Plus there are not many jobs you can be openly stoned at all day.
“While the protesters he talked to said they wouldn’t take him up on his offer, he still encourages others to move to the city.”
Don’t waste your time with those guys,Mayor.
First,the COLD up in DC would have most Vancouverites refusing to go outside,and second,if the “occupiers” had any work ethic they’d already be employed.
It’s a great time for a young guy in B.C. to have just started on his welding ticket,as did a young friend of mine.
When he asked if I thought he could find a job after he finishes his ticket,I paraphrased Horace Greely,”go North,young man”!
Interesting comments following the newspaper article with people seeming particularly upset that waitresses make “only” $9.50/hour. I guess the people that wrote those letters never tip in restaurants. I can imagine that a good waitress can probably make 4-5x her hourly rate in tips up there.
If I had a choice between moving back to Vancouver or living in N. BC, I’d chose N. BC immediately. Living in a moonbat free community is very pleasant.
Whadabout. Their right to social programs free electricity haute cuisine libraries culture free public tv screens. Work is secondary
Good on him, the mayor if he did this, time some decent well “nutted” men stood up and showed these useless idiots for what they are. Our breathless CBC CTV Starwipe Globe etc have fawned over these parasites in the parks every move, oh wow look at the protesters, turn on the water cannons, post and advertise their names and their parents names, that would cure the “occupy occult” in a big hurry. There isn’t a one of them that would last an hour on a drilling rig let alone serving breakfast to the workers who find the oil.
I so wish I was downtown when he did that, it must have been a hoot to watch.
Just imagine the looks on most of those occutard faces when there given an opportunity like that!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
They didn’t want the job? Wow. What a surprise.
Got a building full of Somalian refugees beside a construction site I’m superintendent of. A couple of them walk by and asked if I had a job for them. I said yes and they could start after lunch. Neither showed up. They know the social assistance benefits they are receiving are much easier to get than to actually earn them.
I’ve been there and unfortunately it is a sh*t-hole in every sense of the expression. I wouldn’t wish Dawson Creek on my enemies.
Edward you sure it wasn’t Vancouver you were in? Fits the description to a T.
Reminds me of Construction bosses showing up at civic parks to recruit Indigents. Offering them 35 dollars an Hour during the labor shortage. Turned down every time. These people want a free ride. Work is a four letter word to them.
terrence nails it.
A job would interfere with their quest to save the world through a Maryjane induced fog.
Good for Dawson Creek.
Give the protestors a little credit for knowing their own limitations. These useless, parasitic turds couldn’t perform even the simplest of tasks and, even if they could, they have zero work ethic or self-respect. They would require hours upon hours of intensive training just to pick fly sh*t out of pepper.
The mayor should be thanking his lucky stars. The occupods couldn’t pass a pee test and so would have wound up freezing their hoo hoos waiting for a bus ticket back to Hongcouver.
The more interesting part of the article is the implication of a booming northern BC. Is the political power ramping up with the economic power? BC would be healthier with some stronger regions with mid-sized cities to counterbalance Vancouver. Vancouver is a wonderful place but it needs…limits.
“Plus there are not many jobs you can be openly stoned at all day.”
Well, actually, that’s not completely accurate. There’s a serious drug problem on a lot of our worksites. That doesn’t stop the work from getting done, but it makes me a bit nervous when I drive onto a rig site.
I’m surprised to hear about Dawson Creek. It used to be a sleepy little town, even when Grande Prairie was booming, an hour away. Mile 0 of the Alaska Hwy. and one of our original boom towns. Wouldn’t live there for less than seven figures myself.
Teach/coach – I came from Dawson Creek, go there every summer – good people, lots of clubs, curling rink, hockey and all the mod cons, relatively quiet and a bit of a mudhole in the spring, but good people with the pioneer spirit, great hunting and some of the best grain growing area. Though the war was the cause of the Alcan Highway, it was the last area of Canada to have homestead rights. Good, honest,hardy types, but it is not for everyone, depends what you want.
LAS writes:
Vancouver is a wonderful place
“wonderful” is not an adjective I’d associate with Vancouver. Maybe 20 years ago but the only positive attribute I can associate with Vancouver now is the anonymity one has being in a large city. I guess keeping most of the provincial moonbats away from where I live is another one.
On a daily basis I see people at my clinic who’ve moved out of Vancouver to the interior of BC and the most frequent comment I hear from them is that they should have made the move sooner. Vancouver had an optimum population about 30 years ago. I knew that there was a major problem in the city 5 years ago when I found myself doing 90% of my shopping over the internet because it was impossible to drive anywhere in Vancouver. Maybe when Vancouver brings back public hangings to deal with its crime problem it might be worth reconsidering.
The interior of BC is where the future of this province lies and why so many people would attempt to squeeze themselves into a tiny piece of land given the size of BC will always be a mystery to me.
The OWS people don’t want to work, silly! That’s YOUR duty — to work so your taxes can support THEM!
larden- You aren’t kidding about “hardy types”. Some of the toughest people I’ve ever met were from Dawson Creek. I trained Billy Ranahan for a short time. That guy could have been a contender, if he hadn’t wrecked his hand, and hit the drugs.
Dawson Creek is not Miami Beach.
Miami Beach is no Dawson Creek!
The Vancouver crime problem exists in 1) the east side and 2) Loki’s head. Vancouver has traffic issues so does every other city. Lots of people live there for good reason.
It’s not unusual to have temperatures of minus 30 degrees for weeks on end in Dawson creek. Vancouver is not fertile recruiting ground for that place. Winnipeg maybe but not the city of weenies , whiners and wingnuts. Don’t know what Bernier was thinking.