1 - JOBS, THE ECONOMY, RETRAINING AND UNEMPLOYMENT
2 – CORRUPTION IN BUSINESS AND TREATMENT OF WHISTLEBLOWERS
3 – ATTITUDES IN GENERAL
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1 – JOBS, THE ECONOMY, RETRAINING AND UNEMPLOYMENT.
A1.1. UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDER-EMPLOYMENT: NEED FOR
BETTER INFORMATION, ANALYSIS AND REPORTING.
This shows that the so-called “official” unemployed,
according to Statistics Canada’s definition, actually represent only a
relatively small part of the overall problem. As an example, the “Ottawa’s
Hidden Workforce” report of Fall 1998
is cited; this shows how most of the problem is routinely covered up by
classifying most people out of work under certain categories within the general
classification “Not in the Labour
Force”. In Ottawa, with special reference to high tech unemployment since 2000,
the problem is shown to have been continually aggravated by other sources of
so-called “information” which ignored basic principles of counting known to
high school leavers; this approach was proved wrong beyond any reasonable doubt
by a special Statistics Canada report released on July 20th 2007.
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A1.2. MORE ABOUT OTTAWA’S HIGH TECH UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM
This section raises questions in a
number of areas:-
A1.2 (A)
GENERAL
This exposes many questions about Ottawa’s high tech unemployment problems since 2000 that should have been raised in the mainstream media, but were not. Attitudes and time-honoured traditions causing this negligence, and the resulting failure to deal realistically with the challenges involved, are questioned.
Details: HERE
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A1.2 (B)
CLAUDE HAW, PRESIDENT OF THE FORMER O.C.R.I.
Claude
Haw is shown to represent an example of how even important community and business
leaders in Canada are being mis-led by popular disinformation and wrong
analysis supplied to them, emanating both from official sources and elsewhere.
Details: HERE
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A1.2 (C) MORE ON
THE JOB HUNTER’S CONUNDRUM
This section constitutes a brief look at some of the mathematics behind
some job hunters’ conundrums .It involves probability, chance and statistics. The problem
of personal financial management and optimizing the trend in one’s bank balance
is shown to be un-solvable for some people, while the same mathematics also
explains why the problem is not an issue for certain people who are lucky
enough. Traditional criticisms, directed at people having persistent trouble
getting work, are shown to be both baseless and incompetent. The mathematics
involved is within the grasp of Ontario high school leavers.
Details: HERE
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A1.3. MORE
CONCERNING THE PUBLIC MIS-REPORTING AND OBFUSCATION ABOUT UNEMPLOYMENT AND
UNDEREMPLOYMENT.
This section gives Dr. Ray Barton’s perspective on the problem;
Dr. Barton is the C.E.O. of Vitesse Re-Skilling, an Ottawa organisation
concerned with helping unemployed high tech people in Ottawa get back to work.
This section also questions the specifications that
Statistics Canada are working to concerning the collection of information about
unemployment and under-employment, and reporting on this. In particular, the
apparent lack of input from the general public, people out of work, organised
labour and organisations trying to help people get back to work, are all cited.
At best, the specifications have not kept up with the needs of the times,
possibly by default. The possible motives of the people responsible for these
specifications are questioned, along with the possible impact of Soviet
disinformation campaigns during the Cold War. In particular, the careless and
indiscriminate use in reports of terminology such as “…dropped out of the
labour force…” and “…given up looking for work…” are questioned.
Details: HERE
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A1.4 FOREIGN TRAINED PROFESSIONAL IMMIGRANTS TO
CANADA; “PROMISES”; CONTRACT OF EMPLOYMENT “FIDDLE”.
This section highlights
the need for proper legally-binding contracts of employment in the case of
foreign-trained professional immigrants actively recruited by Canadian
companies to work in Canada. Such contracts must guarantee work to the said
foreign-trained professional for at least the time necessary to meet the
Canadian experience requirement for licensing in the profession involved
(example: Professional Engineering).
A case of a mis-managed
recruitment back in 1982 by SNC-Lavalin Inc. (known then as The SNC Group) is
cited, in which the company appears to have purposely used vague/ doubtful
language in a job offer in order to absolve itself of any responsibility to the
person so recruited in the event of problems related to the Canadian economy. This,
combined with other factors which appeared over the years since then, ended up
ruining the life of the person so recruited and mainstream media have so far
refused, for all practical purposes, to ask even one question about the
company’s conduct – “never mind” publishing any report. As a result, everything
has been effectively covered up from the start, with no end to the cover-up in
sight. The same SNC-Lavalin Inc. has been deeply involved in bribery and
improper payments in Libya, reported continually in the media since late 2011.
Example: a bribe of $160 million that they paid to Saadi Gadhafi which led to
the RCMP raiding SNC-Lavalin Inc.’s Montreal H.Q. in April 2012 to search for
the relevant documents.
Details: HERE
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A1.5.
ADDITIONAL INDICATIONS OF FLAWED APPROACH TO DATE; SOME CAUSES OF THIS;
SOME REFERENCES.
This cites many references all pointing to widespread flawed
ideas concerning economic management and bad information on which those ideas
were and still are based. Some are specific to Ottawa; the others are much more
general and make reference to the U.S. and elsewhere as well as to Canada.
Examples include a 2005 report from Carleton University
concerning Ottawa’s high tech unemployment problem and a mis-leading January
2014 report about Ottawa’s supposedly “burgeoning” high tech sector (imparting
the impression that the various crises since 2000 never in fact happened).
Another problem area identified is gross over-emphasis in advice to job hunters
on resume-writing, interview technique and other aspects of “appearances” with
no attention to the actual conditions necessary to success which include
satisfactory access to retraining (where needed) and much better-balanced job
markets.
Details: HERE
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A1.6. IMPORTANT ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS LEFT UN-ANSWERED.
SOME
GENERAL EFFECTS OF MIS-GUIDED IMMIGRATION POLICIES.
This deals further with the problem of bad job markets and
low success probabilities in job hunting. Some references cited include: (1) O.S.P.E.’s perspective on
retraining and bad job markets, (2)
work done by Paul Martin P.Eng. concerning the effect of flawed
immigration policy in Ontario leading to a massive over-supply of engineers
relative to actual employer needs, and (3) the Ottawa Business Journal’s 2006
Summer Supplement which included the following article:-
“Special Report: Is there, or is there not a skills
shortage?”.
Details: HERE
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A1.7. WHAT IS THE
SIZE OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE PERFORMANCE OF THE CANADIAN ECONOMY TO AIM FOR, AND
WHAT FORM MUST THIS TAKE? HOW MANY NEW FULL TIME JOBS ARE INVOLVED?
This section gives some pointers to realistic numbers - but also points out the incompleteness of available information and the need for improvements in this.
Details: HERE
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A1.8 HOW DO WE AVOID STARTING A CONSUMER PANIC
IF WE DISCUSS FRANKLY THE CHALLENGES OF CANADA’S INEFFICIENT JOB MARKETS?
In this very short section,
the focus is on the size of the improvement in the performance
of the economy that should be the goal in Canada. The other point is the
potential reward in the form of a Nobel Prize for any person or group of people
responsible for the said improvement.
Details: HERE
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A1.9. WHAT WILL BE THE BENEFITS TO CANADA
FOR ACHIEVING FULL EMPLOYMENT?
Some people might need to see this spelled out in writing, but it should be self-evident and this section is so short as to not need a summary right here
Details: HERE
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A1.10. WHAT MUST WE DO IN ORDER TO GET TO FULL
EMPLOYMENT?
This briefly covers three main points: (1) generating enough jobs /
exports / and clearing a large but essentially un-noticed backlog involving
jobs needed to employ everybody properly, (2) new federal/provincial Labour
Market Agreements and other legislation properly based on the lessons of
previous reports, (3) a better method for measuring unemployment and
under-employment as the basis for knowing the numbers of jobs needed, (4)
reforming the administrative justice tribunals connected with federal Employment
Insurance cases and provincial social assistance cases.
The
detailed economic and tax policies necessary to achieving full employment lie
outside the scope of this presentation. The point of this presentation is to
point out the deficiencies in the information made available to governments and
voters alike, which have been and still are responsible for mis-guided
policies. The other point of this presentation as a whole is to show where
improvements in the information are necessary.
Details: HERE
Questions?
Comments? E-mail Robert T. Chisholm, Associate Member OSPE, at attention_to_the_facts@hotmail.com
2 – CORRUPTION IN BUSINESS AND TREATMENT OF WHISTLEBLOWERS
This section highlights reports in Canada about
the mis-treatment of such people and the many cases of this which are
documented on public websites and elsewhere.
These reports have all come into the public
domain as a result of mainstream news reports.
There are other cases - notably one involving SNC-Lavalin Inc., located at:-
www.exposethismuck.com/SAMART1.htm
- which
have been effectively covered up because of refusal by the mainstream media to
ask questions and investigate when asked. This is tempting everybody – notably
politicians - to ignore the stories involved because they don’t consider the
“alternative media” to be credible or
trustworthy. The “alternative media” in general do not have the financial and
legal resources to conduct the detailed fact-checking and other work considered
necessary in the mainstream media, before the latter will report a story.
Details: HERE
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A3.1
DEFEATISM AND DEFEATIST ATTITUDES NOT ACCEPTABLE.
This points out the contradiction posed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s May 2002 speech objecting to defeatism and defeatists, versus still-ongoing traditions and social prejudices which dictate that some problems be classed as incapable of solution.
Details: HERE
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A3.2 WHAT
SHOULD WE BE TELLING THE AMERICANS ABOUT HOW TO AVOID SPECULATION BASED ON
“ENDLESSLY-ESCALATING” REAL ESTATE VALUES?
This section
constitutes a caution against delusional economic stimuli focussing exclusively
on the residential housing sector, coupled with the pretence that the rest of
the economy can be ignored.
Details: HERE
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