Hopefully, more government hiring can turn this around: Canadian economy lost 7,200 jobs in March
A loss of 6,400 full-time jobs made up the bulk of last month’s decrease, Statistics Canada said. The number of employee positions in the private sector fell by 17,300 last month, while public-employee jobs increased by 4,200 and self-employed occupations rose by 6,000.
BONUS JUXTAPOSE: US added 196,000 jobs in March, vs 175,000 expected
(h/t Ed)
One of the reason’s Canada owes more than most EU countries is because of too many Gov. Employees and too many programs. In Canada programs never die. Too much regulation and centralized control. The Total Public Debt and Deficits of all levels of Government is around 6 Trillion with about 16 M taxpayers carrying that burden. Not hard to figure out what is coming. But keep chanting the asinine Molson’s chant “I AM CANADIAN” I can take it in the keester better than anyone. I don’t give a shit how much you take out of kid’s mouth, “I AM CANADIAN”.
I’d personally like to see 177 more jobs lost by this October: all of them Liberal MPs.
Don’t forget the other 1770+ jobs: the Liberal functionaries, entourages, flunkies, public relations and other staffs, xMO offices, and assorted hangers-on…
Minimum 80% of federal public workers are pole smokers of the Corrupt Liberal Party of Canada.
The piece does not specify where the job losses took place. I am assuming the majority were in Alberta based on the continued slowing of the oil industry.
The Commie Press has to help Wretched Knothead any way it can.
Majority were Ontario and Quebec. Fair game. They need to suffer along with Alberta to understand the secondary effects of choking off Alberta’s economy.
Long downhill slide for the thieving by corrupt Fiberal and PM Shit4brains
Not sure I agree totally Dan. I live in eastern Ontario. We all voted conservative and now we have Ford as our premier. We will see what happens but so far he seems to mostly be making good moves. We have endured closings, high unemployment and worst of all a government that raised the cost of doing business in this province till it hurt. It still does. Try being a small licensed tradesman out where I am. It is nearly impossible.
When the convoy came to Ottawa in February, I was one of the few Ontario folks that showed up to show my support for my western brothers. We are here. Believe me.
I travel all over this end of the province and what I saw in the last year of Wynne’s tenure was visible disgust. I am starting to see the same animus towards Master Trudeau. I hope and pray that we will rid our country of this twit before he causes real harm.
Lets come together to do that. An economy that sheds 17,400 jobs in a month is not healthy. It is in very bad health when most of those jobs are lost in the private sector that creates wealth being replaced somewhat by jobs in the public sector that suck wealth. Try explaining to a government worker about taxes. They always say “well I pay taxes.”. I respond “sure you do, but the money you pay those taxes with comes from us and we are slowly disappearing. Who is going to pay when we all move somewhere else?” Blank looks.
Its not healthy, agreed. But not a case of isolation, just the downstream effects of poor policy decisions, resulting in the stagnating Alberta economy, and how that eventually affects the rest of Canada, in many ways predictable, and unpredictable. Ontario will also be an indirect victim of the much better performing economy of the US, and its lower tax and energy cost regime. Businesses can’t help but relocate or downsize their Ontario facilities to the US. PM Dingbat has no concept about competing tax regimes, instead, as the election nears, its been widely rumoured that his strategy will be to play Captain Canada, fighting back against evil Orange Man Bad. Though the SNC mess has blown his credibility to bits
Orange Man isn’t the problem, its not aligning to the policies and adopting to lower tax regimes. There’s one thing governments are hard of learning, you can’t tax your way to prosperity. Despite that fact, we still see these nonsensical columns about how BC’s carbon tax HAS made things more prosperous. Its lunacy!
Ford is in tough, saddled by huge deficits, and a competing economy adjacent with lower costs. His only way out is to cut government by a significant number, at least 20%. And the war is on.
You can thank the last Fiberal regime of McSquinty and Wynneing, they have brought Ontario to the precipice
Darnit. Who could have figured out Socialism sucks?
Allways has, always will.
Maybe Linda L can say something about “make sure to vote for Scheer, so absolutely nothing changes, but at least my team wins”.
Kevin: EXACTLY!!! If we don’t vote out the LIE-BRALS in 2019…VOTE OUT THE TRUDEAU VOTE OUT THE LIE-BRALS!! VOTE CONSERVATIVE THEY WILL AXE THE “CARBON TAX”. It will end up like it was in Pierre’s time houses boarded up as NO one could afford them anymore….job losses more families on Welfare and Unemployment Insurance. VOTE FOR THE CONSERVATIVES IN…October 2019!
Absolutely, flush the turd & vote for the one and only Conservative party, the Peoples Party of Canada.
Says a Lieberl in Conservative clothing !
I could’ve got behind Max if he would have kept his party and resources contained within the borders of Quebec during this coming election and avoided spitting the vote everywhere. He then could’ve joined the CPC with his MP’s on agreeable issues. He could’ve possibly held the balance of power, but no, he’s got to drag everyone down and aid The Turd in for another 4 years(just like Romney wasn’t conservative enough, Look at the damage Obama did with an extra 4 years)
If Trudeau gets back into power again, we’ll all be looking at you GRM, and all the other genuine Max supporters and all the fake Max supporters who are really Liberals who want to aid us in splitting our rightwing vote.
GRM, are you astroturfing us here at SDA?
There’s no such thing as “splitting the vote”. Either you vote for a conservative party, or you don’t. Either vote for the PPC, or be honest with yourself and vote Liberal.
Jolene: EXACTLY!! GRM a LIE-BRAL in Conservative clothing. I would like Max BUT this is not the time. We need the LIE-BRALS out of gov’t TRUDEAU is a LIAR and is TAXING Canadians to death….NO WORK if the LIE-BRALS have their way!! CLIMATE BARBIE Lies just like the Climate was going to do us in 2000 remember!! Their are PEOPLE making money off of this…..FOLLOW THE MONEY ON THE CLIMATE CHANGE DEAL!!
Jolene, I’m with GRM. I’ll vote Max. What is this obsession with Trudeau anyway? The problem is the political parties. Both the LPC and CPC are globalist owned. By voting for a globalist owned puppet, we get more socialism and cultural Marxism. That’s their MO for implementing the program globally.
The difference between a LPC globalist owned puppet like Trudeau vs a CPC globalist owned puppet like Sheer is how fast they go about implementation of the agenda. I’m for fast track. Things have to get worse before they get better. The sooner the better.
The US economy keeps moving north while Canadistan’s marches south.
The Americans are at least trying to keep making their own stuff. Here in Idiotland we poo poo manufacturing especially by people like Bev McLaughlin, PM Turnip, LEAP manifesto arseholes, Liz Green Poon May, Jughead Rolex and that stupid ugly preachy Serafina kid. They all need to eat a shit sandwich.
This would be Alberta’s biggest problem without Canada sucking it’s blood. https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-05/norways-1-trillion-sovereign-wealth-fund-dumping-em-bonds-and-buying-stocks
Yes, do tell us all again how well those savvy Alberta provincial governments have managed your Heritage Fund.
Well JJM there would be a lot more in the Heritage fund if Alberta had a value added tax like Norway; 25% on pretty much everything, but only 15% on food.
Is this what you would like?
I’ll bet Joe Ceci (NDP finance minister) will bring in a VAT tax if Nutley is re-elected. “It’s not a sales tax it’s a value added tax. It’s good for you because it adds value.”
I don’t much care. My comment was in reaction to Watcher’s arrant grumbling.
If Alberta had been as half as careful with its fund as Norway has been, it would have billions and billions in the bank now. But no, they just couldn’t keep their hands out of the cashbox.
Proving – much as Watcher probably won’t like it – that Albertans are not somehow fiscal geniuses compared to other Canadians.
Indeed, it proves that, left to their own devices, they are just as venal and spendthrift as the rest of us.
I’ll agree we Albertans are spenders like the rest of the country. But I’ll also posit that if Alberta had billions and billions in the heritage fund the rest of Canada would have found a way to seize it.
I remember a few politicians commenting on eastern media reports that the selfish Albertans were not sharing the heritage fund wealth that “rightfully” belonged to all Canadians.
Remember the great deal Quebec gave Newfoundland on Churchill Falls power when electricity rates went up?
Now Albertans send lots of money to Ottawa, and what does Ottawa say? Send more and we’ll stop your industry.
What does John Horgan say? No pipelines, but Ottawa needs to expand the oil supply!
“But I’ll also posit that if Alberta had billions and billions in the heritage fund the rest of Canada would have found a way to seize it.”
Sure the “rest of Canada” would.
More denial, this time wrapped up in conspiracy-theory language about the “rest of Canada”.
That’s right, “Canada” has it in for Alberta.
All going according to plan laid out by Mo Strong. Something about deindustrializing…
Ken (Kulak): EXACTLY! So we all become SERF’s to LORD’S sounds familiar.
the number of government employees could be cut in half and no one would notice. Ever since that stupid Pierre Trudeau this country is sinking into socialism
Lost 7,200 jobs. Almost one SNC.
The number of government workers remind me of an old joke:
“How many people work in this office?”
“About a quarter of them.”
A joke told to me some years ago by a French Army officer when his government was introducing a 35-hour work week:
Q: “Why are all the civil servants upset about the new 35-hour working week?”
A:”They don’t think it’s fair they have to work an extra five hours now.”
Another –
Q: Why do they have yellow lines in hallways in Gov’t offices?
A: So the employees coming in late don’t run into the ones leaving early
I’ve seen my share of government offices. That’s not far off.
And most of what that quarter are doing could be done in India.
At the post-secondary institution I used to teach at, I saw similar staff bloat. And, like in any other bureaucracy, that bloating increased the further up one went in the system. After all, someone had to supervise all those cockamamie educational “initiatives” that were being inflicted upon the teaching staff.
I’m sure that a third of the employees there could have been canned and their workloads distributed to those remaining without anyone even noticing any difference.
Then again, we had administrators in my department who weren’t particularly interested in doing their jobs. One was off working on his pet projects most of the time (all meant to make himself eligible for promotion to the senior ranks) and the other one was busy dumping his work onto my colleagues and me. The only things he couldn’t shuffle off his desk were those tasks that specifically needed an administrator’s authority. He was the laziest manager I’ve ever encountered in my entire working life.
Oh no. Employment of women who ought to be home raising children (25-54) dropped by the most in one month since 1976.
Look forward to seeing what our feminist PM will do about that.
“New France” was a fiefdom, so is Peeairs, New New France. Experiencing it differently.
I keep reading on here how many of you are going to vote for Max. And I agree everything he says is a siren song to a conservative. But Max has one huge liability and that is that he is from Quebec. If you people have not learned anything from our history with our PM’s coming from Quebec whether it be a Liberal or a Conservative like Mulroney(with his brown envelopes), then you have learned nothing. I am not sure what Scheer would be like but at least he isn’t from Quebec. And at my age I am just hoping I live long enough to see Western Separation so we can get out of this disfunctional confederation.
soooooooooooooooooo, JL, are all those failed lefty pols out west from queebeck also?????
once you pull your head outa yer a$$…………………………..
NME.
I hope Max and his candidates are ready for the media assault that will descend upon them come September.
Food for thought for the anti-Quebec western contingent. Some deep thinkers on SDA have identified the problem being bigger than being from Quebec or being French. They say the problem is that Quebeckers like Bernier are owned by the Vatican. From what I’ve read, Bernier isn’t a practicing RC whereas “bulls eye 5 for 5′ Andy is. So those westerners to whom this matters, there’s your choice for PM: a lapsed papist turned hedonist, a lapsed papist (father educated Jesuit) who has found his way back to the Church of Rome and a lifelong practicing papist whose father was deacon in the Church of Rome. I am aware Rome smuggled out many Nazis and has ties to fascist groups all over. But then the City of London did finance the Nazis too…along with the ungodly Bolsheviks .
Those capable of seeing in the shades of grey have come to realized how entwined the players are and how the course of events are fabricated. We are just sheep being herded along.
unless and until Canadians get their collective heads out of their collective arses nothing will change. even a disaster like Venezuela will not change the minds of the terminally stupid.
Canada is a ‘pre Chavez’ Venezuela. Before Chavez, Venezuela had a rigged corrupt two party political system that divided the country’s spoils between themselves and the technocrats & bureaucrats who ran the show. The rest lived in poverty. Here the middle class are being impoverished and their life savings are being destroyed. The prosperity is an illusion. It’s paid for by ever more debt. Through creative magical monetary tricks, they manage to keep the illusion going.
In many western countries enough people have figured it out and are supporting nationalist leaders. They are winning elections & forming new governments.
The jobs are leaving due to technology, and you haven’t seen anything yet.
There are new shopping carts, you put the goods into, and they automatically bill you. You just wheel it out the store, no need for cash, cashiers or workers. Robots that stock shelves do inventory, and can even give you help finding things. 90 percent of all jobs men do, will be gone in the next 20 years. Back in the day when the loom came out, people thought it would cost them jobs, but it didn’t. It made goods cheaper and created more of them. That’s not the case today, these machines are made in china you don’t speak Chinese, understand the system, or as educated, they have billions of people to chose from. The older will never find a job, too old for construction, and cant get into that factory, that’s in china.