“Canada’s
job market underperforming for years”
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posted on October 31st 2014
Please
go HERE
to see the full article
Question:
(1) WHY has this been allowed to go on for at least the past 30 years?
(2) WHY has the
following situation been allowed to go on? Quote:-
“It
allows cabinet ministers to claim job-seekers just aren’t
trying hard enough to find work; they’re
not properly trained; they’re
not sufficiently mobile; or they’d
rather collect EI than earn a living. It makes the recovery look stronger than
it is, enabling the Tories to campaign for re-election on their record of
creating jobs and improving voters’
lives.”
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and it’s NOT just the Tories who
have been responsible for this.
So
far as I’m concerned, this was and is being done intentionally and at the
behest of the business community which is dictating the specifications
that
Statistics Canada are working to for information collection, analysis and
reporting about the unemployment and underemployment problem.
This has been going on since at least as far back as 1982 when first I arrived in Canada from the U.K. to work for SNC in Montreal, Quebec.
In
2010 and again in 2014 I asked some direct questions about Statistics Canada’s
methods and got un-clear and obfuscatory answers. In particular
no justification was produced for applying terms such as “…dropped out of the labour force…” and “…those who have ceased looking for work for
various reasons…”. Please refer to the information under points 2.3, 3 and 4. <-----BACK and proceed from there, if you want to.
Until
I can see satisfactory proof to the contrary, ON A PERSONAL LEVEL AND IN
GENERAL, the business community is doing this as a means
of
covering up for its real intention - which is to procure cheap labour and
cheapen people. As indicated elsewhere on this site, this has been and
is
happening because of unsatisfactory immigration policies deliberately designed
to ensure a gross over-supply of working immigrants relative
to
what the job markets in Ontario and elsewhere can absorb.
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Some
earlier reports on the general theme concerning “DROPPED OUT OF THE LABOUR
FORCE”:-
Older workers more secure, but harder to re-employ
Long-term unemployment down from early '90s high, Statistics Canada says
http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/news/business/story.html?id=6bc
e2c66-\c9b7-43fe-975f-8a9d70368164
Eric Beauchesne
The Ottawa Citizen
Thursday, April 22, 2004
Quote: “The report says the number might understate the actual level of
long-term unemployment among older workers because, after a year or
more of being out of work, some may give up
looking for jobs and
drop out of the labour force.”
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Reference: http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/business/story.html?id=adf51ee7-ce34-4a61-bc37-
4f769809e01e
Sat Jan 12 2008
Ottawa lost 2,700
jobs last month
First hiring decline in a year, but
regional unemployment still down slightly: StatsCan
Bert Hill, The Ottawa Citizen; with
files from Canwest News Service
Published: Saturday, January 12,
2008
Quote:-
“But strong job growth in Gatineau
and more
people dropping out of the search for work sent the
unemployment rate in the national
capital region down 0.2 percentage points to a record low of 4.5 per
cent……Despite the decline in jobs,
only 31,300 people said they were unemployed in December, down 1,600
from November. The change could
reflect people retiring or returning to school or
other non-work
activity as well as taking a break from
job-hunting.”
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Reference: http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=439f8687-8c01-4625-9169-
c24020141de6&k=67473
Area unemployment
rate falls, but numbers are not all roses
Ottawa Citizen
Published: Friday, February 08,
2008
Quote: “….Statistics Canada
reported Friday that job market dropouts rather than employment growth
drove the change. Total employment
actually dropped 800 jobs during the month, but was offset by a similar
number reporting
they were no longer searching for work.”
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Reference: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/ei-data-dont-count-those-whorun-
out/article1339141/
Without statistics
on the number of jobless Canadians whose employment insurance benefits
have been
exhausted, it's difficult to gauge how many are headed for welfare
Tavia Grant
Published on
Monday, Oct. 26, 2009 8:00PM EDT Last updated on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009
8:41AM EDT
Quote 1: “In a
country that dutifully tallies everything from egg sales to steel wire
production, one
crucial piece of the economic puzzle is missing.
When Statistics
Canada releases its monthly report on employment insurance today,
notable will be
the lack of information on the number of unemployed who have exhausted
their EI benefits.
This is frustrating the efforts of economists and also complicating public
policy, because
how can governments and support agencies respond if the full extent of the
problem is
unknown? “
Quote 2: “Mr.
Bishop (an economist at Toronto-Dominion Bank) noted that this "poor
real-time
gauge" of how many unemployed are without income has implications for how
governments plan
the rates and delivery of social assistance.
Currently no
federal body publishes timely statistics showing how often EI benefits run
out or welfare
rates across the country, which economists expect to rise. “
Quote 3: “Without statistics on benefits being exhausted, it's
difficult to gauge how many people may be
headed toward welfare. As of July, almost 788,000 people were receiving
regular jobless benefits, a 57-
per-cent increase since the labour market peaked last October. The
latest numbers, however, showed a
3.8-per-cent drop in the number of people receiving regular claims month
over month in July. On the
surface, that's welcome news as the labour market stabilizes. But
Statistics Canada analysts attribute
part of the drop to benefit expiration. “
COMMENTS.
If you don’t know how many
out-of-work people are on welfare or were never eligible for E.I. benefits in
the first place, then you cannot know
the numbers of jobs needed to employ them / make taxpayers out of
them,
This state of affairs is clearly and
totally unsatisfactory.
See also:-
1. The “Ottawa’s Hidden Workforce”
report of Fall 1998
2. The Statistics Canada report,
“Work Hours Instability in Canada” of March 2006
3. The Statistics Canada report,
“Life After the High Tech Downturn”, of July 20th 2007
4. The “Engineering and Technology
Labour Market Study – Final Report” , April 30th 2009
These
and other important reports and analyses are all downloadable from www.unempgeninfo.com