“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/index.htm