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Originally Posted by westopher
Anyone who believes the NDP had any real effect on Alberta's current economic situation hasn't been paying much attention to any global or even national economic standing. People aren't losing jobs because NDP wants to add more corporate taxes, people are losing jobs because all they had was a bunch of fucking temp jobs to begin with. I know plenty of people still raking in the money up in fort mac. The difference is, they weren't pushing brooms underneath an electrician for 100k a year.
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To think it has had a small or insignificant impact is ignorance.
While the situation I mentioned is probably just irony, my friend works in a relatively high position for one of the largest staffing companies in the oil patch, JV driver. A massive company. As soon as the NDP came into power the CEO sent out a information package basically saying that depending on how tax structure and impact to the companies they supply forces to works out, they could be potentially pulling out of Alberta completely and focusing on their interests in the southern states.
This is a CEO reacting directly to the NDP coming into power, that isn't a coincidence like my scenario was.