It doesn't matter in star trek.

Only a matter of time before we have universal translators so language barriers will be non existent. Culture does not stay within boarders. Look how big kpop is outside of Korea and India has a national men's and woman's ice hockey teams.

Looking at the polls right now most Canadians are left leaning voting for the Liberals NDP or Green. looks like your values are not inline with most Canadians so you should fit in of fck off.

Well then, i guess you'll know who to thank when you can't find anyone to work for under $40/hr just to sit on their fat ass all day serving up slurpees and trolling on the internet eh, Mark?

Looks like someone is upset.

If min wage was higher maybe we wouldn't have people digging for change so they can get $4 of gas at the end of the month.

If we didn't have any employee's welfare you know what we would do? We would work more. It's not like we haven't have to do that before. I am not going to tell a customer to fuck off and come back the next day.

Will you two get a room already. SwiftRage

Flood market with unskilled labor. increase minimum wage
Liberal economics 101 :lol

Does this mean you've unignored me? :hotbaby:

https://www.richmond-news.com/news/p...ond-1.23931647
Prime minister gave out mooncakes in Richmond

Problem is there is a huge shortage of unskilled/skilled labour.

The US but the same is happening here.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/29/fast...very-year.html

There is no shortage of unskilled labour people have just gotten inherently lazy and entitled. As for skilled labour or trades in Canada the dump of oil prices has forced all those tradesmen out in to a market that's saturated. Most of my buddies that used to work the patch have been forced to abandon their electrician, plumbing, etc skills and earn income in other ways - most in tech. It's tough to find a good contractor around here and they're charging more than ever, but to say there's a shortage would be an overstatement.

As for the fast food industry whining about their turnover: they created their own problem. They admit right in the article that they made the jobs so mundane, easy, and impersonal that they made their employees "easily replaceable". Their language! They made working for them completely unfulfilling and their employees to feel like robots, so the employees leave to find something more meaningful. Look at someone who slings fast food vs a server at a restaurant or bar and the comparative income based on how much effort one puts in to make their customer happy. POOR MCDONALDS my fcuking ass.

Thank you. Someone who actually scratches beyond the surface of agenda driven stats.
We have a skills mismatch problem and a ridiculously inflated housing market along with a stifled energy sector. Adding more people will only exacerbate these problems

I talk to construction workers daily and they are all are swamped. One guy a few weeks back told me he could have 3 or 4 more crews running if he could find the workers.

https://www.cheknews.ca/nanaimo-sees...n-2019-582224/

Alberta is not all of Canada.




Look who is training at Tristar.

https://scontent.fyvr4-1.fna.fbcdn.n...b4&oe=5DCD50F2

Lol... Jaggy needs to spend less time "training" and more time rallying the troops, the NDP is about to return to fringe party status.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ndp...ates-1.5263840

Quality over quantity. Mad max wil let anyone with a pulse run.

as much as i don't like the liberals right now, i hate the conservatives so much more, so i'm happy that the ndp is doing poorly... less vote splitting.

Aren't trades like electrician and plumber in high demand these days given the shortage of these types of workers?

Greater Vancouver and the South Island are not all of Canada either. The majority of tradesmen who were forced out of the patch went home to various communities across the country, they weren't all Albertan FailFish It wouldn't surprise me if Vancouver is short, the cost of living is so prohibitively high that without the oil industry level of income tradesmen aren't flocking to live there.

EDIT - It should be noted that trades being in demand and people at least claiming a "shortage" just means there is consistent employment for people in that sector. It shields them a bit from an economic downturn which is likely to happen. If major projects have work stacked up for 18 months to two years that's actually a good thing. Meanwhile no one is waiting two weeks to have a plumber come fix their kitchen sink. Perspective.

It's the whole Island and the lower mainland that is facing a shortage. If you need to get a small job done you are either paying a arm and a leg or waiting.

Looks like there is a shortage of trades in Ontario too.
https://beta.canada.com/life/homes/r...87f40a85b/amp/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toron...port-1.5054456

Seems like is all of Canada.

https://nationalpost.com/life/homes/...oming-shortage

Even Alberta is looking into getting more young people in to trades.

https://edmontonjournal.com/news/loc...f-tradespeople

Wait you mean women aren't climbing over each other to fill these positions? Even with triple the red seal incentive grants than men get?
Maybe instead of fixating on social engineering and gender parity he could try focusing on keeping skills matched to demand.

Doubling incentive grants for everyone could have gone a long way in enrolling trades trainees.

FailFishFailFishFailFish

You are missing the point. You can offer all the bonuses you want. it's not going to help when you don't have enough people.

Look at the trunking industry they are offering big bonuses and you can make over a 100K a year, but still can't find enough drivers.

Maybe that's because sitting stationary with your eyes glued to the road for 16 hours at a time for years on end isn't exactly enticing to a lot of people.

Trades people are fleeing the lower mainland and other metro areas because of the ridiculous cost of living.
There's no one in Nanaimo to work because it's...Nanaimo.

So Vancouver is too expensive but Nanaimo is not good enough. Fck you're picky. I would rather drive a truck than be broke and homeless but that's just me. I guess you and your friends are different.

Haha. ok night night little buddy

I'm not your buddy guy. You can't handle how well the economy is doing under JT. You get triggered every time someone mentions it.