… the New Democrats refuse to make any cuts at all in the public-sector workforce to help reduce their mega-deficits. As Finance Minister Joe Ceci is fond of saying, the government “will not balance the budget by putting more working people on the unemployment line.”
But if you work in an industry the stands in the way of the NDP’s “green energy” dreams, they have no problem at all putting you out of work.
There will be $40 million available to help coal miners and power plant technicians find new jobs or retire. Government counsellors will be avail to tutor unemployed coal workers on how to apply for new jobs, write resumes and “connect with the supports that work best for them
How nice … $40 million for new government employees to “counsel” the poor suckers who are suddenly and intentionally unemployed. Coal workers LOSE jobs … Government GAINS jobs. All artificially (not free marketplace) created. Here’s an idea … GIVE that $40 million DIRECTLY to the unemployed workers that YOU created.
Liberals should NEVER be put in charge of other peoples money. Cause they just can’t help but stuff MOST of it into THEIR own pockets.
CAGW is the great diversion that allows otherwise banal socialist destroyers to democratically savage the economy while millions of brain dead (and or evil) voters cheer them on. The political beauty and purely evil facet of deficit financing is that this can all transpire with the bill passed on to the unborn.
This is the NDP playing the long game. They are spending like drunken sailors knowing that their gig is up in two years and that the UCP will have to cut jobs. Many of the government employees will remember that and revert to voting NDP after the next mandate.
Also, can’t forget the millennial vote… They don’t care about debt and consequences. They’ll be happy NDP voters for a long time to come.
I suspect the logic is similar to progressive stacking used by progressives during discussions. The importance of your voice, your opinion is determined by your skin color, gender, disabilities, etc. Those with more intersectionality points are given prominence. White men are only allowed to speak at the end, if at all.
If you see concern for employment as another version of progressive stack then it makes sense. Energy companies like coal and oil are generally white guys so their jobs have no value in the intersectionality game. Government employees are all about diversity first so they’re high value jobs and high value people. Blue collar, unionized workers used to have a lot of value to the NDP but progressives are always looking for newer, hipper allies.
Some wag on facebook opined that replacing the NDP would be cheaper than giving 40 million to the soon to be out of work coal miners. Likely better for the environment as well.
Unless the NDP has plans to replace coal with nuclear, hydro or natgas then they should hold off completely decommissioning the coal plants. Any place that’s tried to replace baseload power with intermittent power has had to order the coal plants back into service. In a cold northern climate it would be incompetent, if not criminal, to jeopardize residents safety by attempting to rely on wind and solar instead of conventional, reliable power.
Note: there are lots of blue collar jobs in decommissioning old plants. It takes years. I assume some coal plant locations will be converted to natgas…more jobs. No matter how hard they try, the NDP and progressives will not be able to eliminate high paying, blue collar jobs. Things need to be built, repaired, maintained and tradespeople are aging. Maybe someday robots and AI will be able to go outside at -35C, in the driving snow, gale force winds or pouring rain to climb a pole. Maybe they’ll be able to weld a pipe in confined spaces or pull wire through a maze of structures. I doubt that’s in the near future.
Green lunatics,who have the economic understanding of a 12 year old, believe all the resource extraction and manufacturing jobs can be replaced by tourism and green energy jobs.They argue that point on every media comment section.
But,most of them have government Union jobs,and the ugly reality of layoffs and never finding a decent paying job again, doesn’t affect them at all. They spend their lives comfortable in their useless career, dreaming up ways to save the world,while their fellow citizens lives go for a sh!t.
We could probably fire 30% of government employees at all levels of government,and the public would never notice they were gone.
Ever heard of attrition? Hundreds, if not thousands of government employees retire or leave the employ of the government every year. Don’t replace them, and no one has to lose their job. That’s what the UCP will do upon their election in 2019.
Right now about -6 outside, overcast, no wind. Coal and gas are currently providing about 95% of our electric power. ‘Other’ and ‘Wind’ about 3.5% with Hydro providing remainder.
(Alberta) Current Supply Demand Report
Look at the TNG column in the top middle table labelled ‘Generation’.
P. S. Todays Capcha: 15051 GASOLINA
Right now about -6 outside, overcast, no wind. Coal and gas are currently providing about 95% of our electric power. ‘Other’ and ‘Wind’ about 3.5% with Hydro providing remainder.
(Alberta) Current Supply Demand Report
Look at the TNG column in the top middle table labelled ‘Generation’.
That is a very good point. Easily done without all the stress and drama associated with layoffs and dismissals. The problem is getting managers to implement it. A perfect example is the large health district here in Saskatoon. Managers are either so intimidated by the unions or interested only in enlarging or maintaining their little empires that vacancies are filled immediately and without question. The term “attrition” does not exist.
“We could probably fire 30% of government employees at all levels of government,and the public would never notice they were gone.”
You’re likely a little shy on your estimate.
We could probably fire 30% of government employees at all levels of government,and the public would never notice they were gone.
It’s not just in government where that would apply.
At the post-secondary institution where I used to teach, if a third of the staff there had been canned, it wouldn’t have made any difference to how things were run. The students would never have noticed and few employees would have had an increase in their workloads as a result.
Frankly, many of the people at that place were redundant.
Have a NDP MLA here,Northern Vancouver island. She was asked by a group of mostly unionized loggers for a letter of support against jacking the amount of hiway logging trucks up here at close 5-6 x’s the current amount of traffic. The argument was lost anyways but it would have just been a little bit of moral support. >crickets
“…We could probably fire 30% of government employees at all levels of government,and the public would never notice they were gone.”
I disagree. The public would definitely notice the improvement in service.
mmmhmmm.
meanwhile, the chirese built (is that spelling racist?) COAL FIRED generators gush BILLIONS of tonnes of CO2 in increasing amounts . . .
http://www.mining.com/chinese-companies-build-700-coal-plants-outside-china/
whatever does it all mean?
Gang Green cannot be reasoned with.
Now they believe they can get away with taxing life itself, carbon dioxide emissions.
Parasites never voluntarily stop their feeding.
Canadians are such suckers,we are being sucked into slavery by virtue posturing.
When we should be treating these evil fools and bandits to french haircuts.
Strikes me the tip speed of their wurling crucifixes is just perfect for the task.
having so called working people in government on welfare would be cheaper than having them “working”.