Is rising unemployment part of Canadian exceptionalism too? I’m sure this can all be fixed with zero percent interest rates in any case.
Canada’s labour market shed a net 65,500 jobs in August and the unemployment rate jumped to 7.1 per cent, according to Statistics Canada data released on Friday.
The unemployment rate is now at its highest point outside of the pandemic since May 2016, and has risen 0.5 percentage points since the start of this year.
I know what we should do!
We should put impossible regulations on the Oil and Gas industry!
We should abandon agriculture to prop up a non-existent market!
We should raise taxes!
Government just needs to spend more!
That should solve it! Right? Right?
Anyone?
Buehler?
No, just increase TFWs to fix it.
Ah yes, I forgot. Definitely will solve growing unemployment.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/2025/09/05/carney-to-pause-2026-ev-target-announce-new-tariff-supports/
Looks like the feds are going to “pause” the EV mandate
My guess is that the automakers told the Greatest Economist Ever (TM) that they were going to start shutting plants in canaduh
Heard on the local radio business update this morning that they were predicting a net 10,000 jobs gain. Missed it by that much.
Only off by 76,000. That’s deemed a direct hit for a Lieberal Party card carrying senior federal bureaucrat.
The situation has become so bad that the federal government’s bloating of its own workforce can no longer offset the private sector losses caused by their counterproductive nanny state policies.
Hiring government workers is not job creation. Anyone and anything (including private contractors/companies) paid with tax dollars shrinks the economy. Real private sector jobs grow the economy and generates real taxable revenue. Government workers do not pay taxes, their income only gets clawed back as it started out as taxes. Only Lieberals and Dippers hire on more voters and claim it’s called creating jobs.
Yup.
I had a best bud once complain to me about how much taxes he paid.
When I told him he didn’t pay any taxes he didn’t like hearing that, no sir.
None of them do.
Then try to talk to them about generating wealth.
Jaysus you may as well be speaking Klingon.
Canada is too far along the path of decline to be saved, imo. The spring election was likely the final chance to course correct and the Liberal voters blew that chance. At this point it would be necessary for the federal Liberal government to throw out every one of Trudeau’s signature policies and reintroduce Harper era economic, immigration, public service, crime, and regulatory policies…and I can’t see that happening.
Frankly, the only options I see are 2 prairie provinces separating from Canada or anyone who personally has the ability to leave the country to do so. As much as I prefer the former, we are perusing the latter. There isn’t a viable, long term future in Canada for our kids.
I hate to break it to you, again, but it was Harper’s government that eased restrictions on the TFW program back in 2006. It made it significantly easier for employers to hire temporary foreign workers and caused a significant increase in those workers between 2006 and 2012.
Again, your Liberal party just took advantage of things started by your Conservative Party (need I remind you that both Pollievre and Bernier were in the Conservative government under Harper; he was their boss basically).
When I called Canada the Great Northern Chicago I meant it — Illinois has been beleaguered by a corrupt, rotten uniparty…so have you.
Harper did indeed lay the groundwork for the TFW program. Harper, like most Canadians, never imagined that a future government would do what Trudeau has done. Harper was not cynical enough in my opinion. The TFW program, IIRC, was also supposed to be suspended when the unemployment rate hit 6%. Trudeau removed that guardrail.
In the bigger picture though, Harper’s political policies helped Canadians and the Canadian economy. Trudeau was a 10 year reign of economic vandalism.
It was brought in as there was full employment and spots were still left unfilled in important sectors. The program was supposed to have a limit to it. Harper expanded it due to underemployment. In my opinion, along with Senate reform, this was a his biggest blunder. Harper slowed the program and tried to put limits in. The Liberals (and NDP for that matter) who opposed the TFW program while Harper was in, promptly blew up all the limits and made Canada a free-for-all once they got into power. Today the NDP are mostly silent as they can’t appease the union half and the immigrant half at the same time (why they are dead in the water politically). Coles notes. Harper tried to solve a problem. It bombed. The Libs made the bomb much much bigger. The NDP have no morals or loyalty to anyone in their party.
What is the true cost to Canadian of the temporary foreign workers programs and all the other handouts to recent immigrants from all levels of government?
Just cash, not counting the youth’s wasted years on unemployment or welfare or the debt students run up because they can’t find jobs or can’t find good jobs.
Count the cost of paying unemployment to Canadian kids who can’t find jobs.
Count the economic cost of the remittances sent back to India or elsewhere by immigrants instead of spending the money here in Canada. Governments love to talk about the multiplier effect.
And then count the wasted training costs to Canadians who can’t find jobs in their trained fields.
Carney’s “Values” at work.
Chicken Dance.
That will make the ugly thoughts go away.
Bad Thought out.
The Other Peoples Money addicts,know the OPM is run out.
But just like every other addict,Hopieum to the rescue.
Elbows up.
Elbows Down.
Do that little chicken dance..
Chicken hopping alround.
The chicken dancers are at least true to form,clucking their idiocy and insisting “Math is Hard”..
When any who care to look,already know that spending more than you receive means bankruptcy.
1-2=none for you.With the added benefit of selling your children into slavery.
Go Team Progressive.
Like LC says,situation is beyond recovery..
At least by any civil means.
Least violent path forward?
Western Independence.
Rising from the failure of this Welfare State of Thuggery.
You just fully described the symptoms of the typical “Elbows Up!” retard.
Well, Carney can:
1. copy/steal Poilievre public policy announcements.
2. Repeal all Liberal enactments since 2015.
3. Do nothing. The damage is done.
Poilievre policy would do nothing, that was pablem for timid Canadian sheep. The only solution (big maybe) is massive deregulation and radical downsizing of government at all levels, a full Milei if you will. Probably not enough.
I feel so much better now that I have given up hope.
Resilience and adjustment instead of hopelessness. From an old Kenny Rodgers song:
“If you’re gonna play the game, boy
You gotta learn to play it right
You’ve got to know when to hold ’em
Know when to fold ’em
*Know when to walk away*
*And know when to run*
You never count your money
When you’re sittin’ at the table
There’ll be time enough for countin’
When the dealin’s done
Every gambler knows
That the secret to survivin’
Is knowin’ what to throw away
And knowin’ what to keep
‘Cause every hand’s a winner
And every hand’s a loser
And the best that you can hope for is to die in your sleep…
🙂
Isn’t that what they say about cheap suits? You gotta know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em?
I’m going to write a manual for bridge players called,”The First Suit Is The Cheapest”.
We’re only seeing the beginning of becoming a full-fledged Shithole Country.
Lots of Canadians probably think its just a dip. “Why don’t those young people just get a job in government…”
Crime, garbage, high debt, high taxes, corruption, shittier health care…they’re wilfully blind to the rising stink.
The Elbow Retard reality: “Living the dream”. Retired and zero fcks given.
Or
They’re Prog women, mostly working for one level of government or another, and giddy with the excitement of seeing the end of the White Patriarchy.
You couldn’t beat sense into them if you were a Muslim boxer in his prime.
Taking a shit on the beach is the new normal in the Great White Stupid North.
My son-in-law is a manager at a transport warehouse in Winnipeg. He recently had to lay off someone they had only hired six months ago when business was brisk. Now it’s painfully slow. His brother works at a transport warehouse in Surrey, BC. He’s on a four day week.
The only jobs that are hiring are government, and are a net negative for the economy