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Grievances Against Canada Laid Out-Trudeau’s Foreign Woes

Grievances Against Canada Laid Out-Trudeau’s Foreign Woes

Tony Peters and The Black Robe

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Canada used to have a great reputation among the countries of the world. We were respected and treated well wherever we went. People saw our military and thought of peace. Now our military has become the laughing stock of the world, not because of anything our brave soldiers have done, but because our government will not supply them with the proper equipment, sending money overseas instead. As for our Prime Minister, well he is the main reason why our country is no longer respected around the world. We are seen as weak fools. People to be scorned and laughed at. Not ideal trade partners and a country that is so destroyed economically, that our oil has gone from a major export, to being sold off at rock bottom prices, simply because of incompetent mismanagement by our federal government. A country where big businesses are advised against setting up in. How did we come to this?

Let us start with this week’s Buckingham Palace incident, where Trudeau spoke candidly about US President Donald Trump. He was speaking with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and French President Emmanuel Macron at the NATO summit, not realizing that someone was video recording the conversation, when he stuck his foot all the way down his throat. Always assume you are on camera when you are at events like that, especially when you are a public figure. Letting your guard down, as Trudeau does far too often, is foolish, like asking for someone to make you look like an idiot. Trudeau does not need any further help in this matter, he does it well enough on his own, and it reflects poorly upon Canada as a whole. Trudeau was caught complaining about Trump and his last-minute press conference, his tone was quite annoyed. When this reached President Trump, who is not one to shy away from candid statements, he called Trudeau “two-faced”. I have seen some joking though that he is 3 faced, he is white, brown, and black faced. Brown of course in reference to his being full of crap, or in other cases being “shit-faced”. The black face reference we will look at next. Short term this has become quite the scandal, but long term, it may not play a huge role. Making these kinds of statements about allies, is not the way to maintain allies, when he already chased Israel away. Trudeau did try to dumb the event down and brushed it off. He claims that we have a strong relationship with the US. Yes, we have a strong giving relationship with the US, Trudeau is such a pushover, that Trump’s strong personality brings Trudeau and Canada to its knees in negotiations.  https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/video-showing-trudeau-seemingly-talking-candidly-about-trump-goes-viral-1.4714387 https://www.rt.com/news/475032-trudeau-donald-trump-nato-g7/

Now for the black face incident. Trudeau over the years, has shown that he has little class or tact when it comes to choosing appropriate costumes for Halloween. He has painted his face black on several occasions, more than he himself admittedly knows. In and of itself, I actually would not see this as a big deal if someone of my social standing did this. It really isn’t a racist act in and of itself, but one would need to be cautious of the crowd you were with, as others may take offense, but our world does take offense too easily. Coming from someone who could expect to always be a public figure, even growing up, which he never really did, he should have refrained from dressing up like this, especially numerous times. One would think that one of his rich friends would have said something about it, but if they had, would he have listened? This incident has further ruined his reputation, if that is possible, but it has also reflected poorly on Canadians. Of course, media blows this out of proportion, and then the activists jump all over it. If the media could focus on real news, we would all benefit. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/19/justin-trudeau-wearing-blackface-details-emerge-third-incident

One of the biggest international screw ups that Trudeau has made is the 2018 India trip. A trip that brings out groans whenever it is mentioned. On this trip Trudeau made a fool of Canadians once again. He turned it into more of a costume dance party suited to his drama teacher days. He wore their traditional garb, but he was not even dressed in the correct clothing for the event he was attending. The smarter move would have been to dress like a westerner, as this is what they would have anticipated and respected. Many of the Indian leaders he met with were in suits already. Then the dance he performed was embarrassing, and improper as well, but I won’t go too far into that. Bad press was again to be had when he was apparently snubbed by the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who did not meet with him. How many Prime Ministers have a fellow Prime Minister come to their country, and then refuse to meet with them? Says a lot about what they think of Trudeau and Canada. The biggest scandal of this trip, however, was the invitation to Jaspal Atwal to Trudeau’s party. Atwal is a convicted Sikh extremist who attempted to kill an Indian State Minister who was visiting Canada in 1987. He was sentenced to 20 years in the Court of Canada. Trudeau claims that this invitation was rescinded when he realized the oversight. This may not be the fact however, as Atwal was seen in pictures with Trudeau’s wife Sophie. This whole incident brought anger from the Indian people, and rightfully so. The question that I would put forth is this, what is Trudeau even doing in the same circle as a convicted Sikh extremist? This may provide some insight into his accepting so much immigration from known terrorist countries, and even more insight into his slack security measures for screening these potential immigrants. https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/22/asia/extremist-scandal-trudeau-india-visit-intl/index.html https://www.reuters.com/article/us-canada-election-missteps-factbox-idUSKBN1W422D

Trudeau has a tendency to break ethics laws. He did this again in an international incident, with the Chinese this time around. In 2016, Trudeau held a fundraiser for the Liberal Party. Invited to this event were people who only got invited after donating hundreds of thousands, or millions of dollars to his father’s Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation. This fundraiser was held at the home of Benson Wong, who happens to of been the chair of the Chinese Business Chamber of Commerce. The ethics law in question is the ban on “cash-for-access”, which is exactly what happened here. Trudeau then had the nerve to defend his violation by stating that it will bring in middle-class jobs, which of course has not happened. https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/09/20/martel-five-justin-trudeau-scandals-that-dont-involve-blackface/

I could go on and on listing ways that Canada has been embarrassed by Trudeau on an international scale, but I will just touch on one final point. Fidel Castro, the Cuban dictator, was a long-time family friend of the Trudeau family, back to the days of Pierre. Pierre and Fidel were so close that rumours flew about the similarities in appearance of Justin and Fidel, theories arose about Justin being Fidel’s son. Justin even was a pallbearer for Castro’s funeral. Justin Trudeau then makes Castro out to be a great leader, a role model. He claims that Castro did great things for his people, and that he cared for them. The truth is that Castro was a terrible Communist Dictator, who murdered thousands of people, refused medical attention for anyone who was not communist, he tortured and raped anyone who opposed him, and then had slave labour camps. Doesn’t sound like a person who loved his people dearly does it? In fact, it sounds like a tyrant and narcissist, but then again, Trudeau obviously sees him as a role model. Is this what we want for our country? Is this what Trudeau has planned? We the people of the west, need to act and gain our independence, before we see more of this in Canada.

 

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Grievances Against Canada Laid Out-Trudeau and the UN

Grievances Against Canada Laid Out-Trudeau and the UN

Tony Peters and The Black Robe

 https://youtu.be/bZnvY8idXzA

Canada is a country divided, right down the middle. East Vs West is the mentality. Trudeau and his crazy policies and actions has further grown this divide, to the point of not being able to repair it, or at least very little chance. The previous instalment looked at a few of these reasons, now this one will further study this matter.

Carbon Tax and environmental policies. If you were to look at Canada.ca under their environmental tab, you will see an excuse given for the Carbon Tax. To make those polluters pay, since we can see the effects of their carelessness. This is buying into the whole global warming/climate change hoax. I am not saying that we don’t have climate change, I am just for all the hundreds of scientists who have claimed it is in fact a natural phenomenon that is changing the climate. We have seen this many, many times before in history. Is man to blame for the previous Ice Age? Is Dinosaur poop responsible for climate change? Or was it simply a result of the Great Flood? I for one believe it was the Great Flood that caused all of that. Now the Earth is shifting its temperatures again, and this is a natural cycle of the Earth. Should we treat the environment with respect? 100%!!!!! With that being said though, we cannot destroy our economy at the cost of saving an environment that is changing anyways. We need an economy to survive, otherwise we see a rise in poverty and homelessness. Which we are seeing right now, thanks to Trudeau’s blindly following the Greta Lunacy, backed by many large foundations around the world who simply want to destroy the world economy to set up a world state, yes this is a real tactic being used by the UN. They want to eliminate borders and have open migration between countries. Ultimately, this will give the UN complete control over the world, something that is currently happening, and Trudeau is on board with, signing onto the agreement with many other nations, despite the large amount of opposition to such a proposal in Canada. With a rise in poverty, comes the rise in crime rates, drug usage rates, overdoses, suicides, stress, and anxiety. Which, again is exactly what we are seeing in the West, particularly Alberta. https://www.spencerfernando.com/2018/01/11/open-borders-united-nations-negotiating-global-migration-plan/

Then we take a look at the actual Carbon Tax portion of all of this. It has been proven to not be a deterrent to anyone. It does not limit our use of Carbon causing products. In fact, all that it has done is destroyed farmers and natural resource sectors. It has cost many jobs and made life so much more difficult for Canadian citizens as a whole. Not only that but Trudeau has a federal tax applied to the Carbon Tax!!!! This is crazy. Why charge a tax on a tax, if it is not a money grab? Which is exactly what it is. As if Canadians can afford more taxes on top of their already high tax rates. Claiming to be trying to grow the middle class, his method of accomplishing this, is to tax the wealthy until they become middle class, and tax the middle class to the point of them becoming either lower-middle-class, or impoverished. By taking money from Canadians, he can then control them. Instead we simply see higher suicide rates, such as the suicide on December 2^nd, 2019. A man shot himself on the steps of the Alberta legislature. If things are not changed in the West, we will continue to see more of this. The Star claims that for every one percent increase in unemployment, 16 more Albertans die by suicide. This is being come a pandemic, to which our Prime Minister seems to want to do nothing to help. It is a large part of western alienation.  Prime Minister Trudeau has already claimed in an interview years ago, that Alberta is the problem in Canada. A statement that gives insight behind the policies he has put into place to destroy Alberta and the rest of the West. It goes beyond that however, as it really will end up affecting the whole country, which again, is what the UN wants. https://globalnews.ca/news/6246038/alberta-legislature-postponed-man-shoots-himself/ https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/news/2017/05/pricing_carbon_pollutionincanadahowitwillwork.html

https://www.thestar.com/edmonton/2019/09/27/sixteen-more-albertans-die-by-suicide-for-every-one-per-cent-increase-in-unemployment-report-finds.html

Trudeau wants his UN seat so badly that he is more than willing to do whatever he can to enable them to accomplish their globalist agenda. Weaken countries to the point of having no choice but to submit. His bid for a UN Security Council Seat, has clouded any last ounce of judgement that Trudeau has, which was very little to begin with. He even went so far as to vote with North Korea and Egypt, a scary thought I know, against Israel, who has been a long-time ally. Way to stab those allies in the back. This goes against everything that Harper had done, in making us the closest ally to Israel, a detrimental result, as it also angers our US allies. None of this matters however, when you are a puppet for a globalist UN, and globalist cabals around the world. It also does not seem to matter that most western Canadians want nothing to do with the UN. https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/goldstein-trudeau-sides-with-israels-enemies https://www.rcinet.ca/en/2019/10/24/trudeau-reaffirms-canadas-bid-for-un-security-council-seat/

Another way that Trudeau plans to help the UN is through his replacement migration in Canada, which has been happening now for years, the government has just been ramping up their efforts since Trudeau came into power. They would claim that they are trying to increase our population, but they are doing this with mainly Muslim nations in mind. They have brought such a large Muslim population into the country, that it is replacing the white population. Yet white people dare not speak out, otherwise they are declared racist bigots, or white elitists. They are attacked from all sides. Now we see our high up figure heads being attacked and fired, an attempt to deculturize Canada. Look at Don Cherry for example, fired for asking all people, yes immigrants in particular, to wear a poppy in respect for our Veterans. Many Muslims refuse to wear a poppy due to feeling that vets who fought against them in previous wars are not worth honouring. They are not the only ones who refuse to wear one though, there are others who choose not to, and Don Cherry was addressing them as well. There were Muslim complaints though, and so he was fired. Here is the rub with immigration, when you immigrate to Canada, assimilate, as we would be expected if we moved to another country. Do not come to a country and try to get rid of our holidays, minimize our religious groups, or force law changes to accommodate you. You moved to Canada, we welcomed you, so don’t abuse hospitality, accept our traditions. Trudeau has since promised to accept more immigrants into the country. He uses very little screening, allowing terrorist nations to send people over, risking terrorist attacks within Canada. He knows that many of these immigrants will vote Liberal, so he forces provinces to accept these immigrants and take over communities in Canada. It is not only Muslims though. We see Chinese immigrants set up China Towns in cities, and with more control being given over to the Chinese, we are seeing more Triad activity in Canada. Drugs are pouring in, and they are even producing them in Canada now. The main problem with these drugs is the fentanyl and carfentanyl that the drugs are laced with. The result has been a lot more overdoses and deaths in relation to drug use. Immigration in and of itself is not a bad thing, it is the lack of caution and screening that has caused the problems. As long as the Liberals are in power, this will not change, in fact, it will only grow worse. https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/don-cherry-fired http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1065&context=pscpapers https://authortonypeters.blogspot.com/2019/11/trudeau-considering-supplying-vancouver.html

None of what I have written about is intended to be racist, or bigoted, it is simple observation. I know many Arabs and East Indians, some of whom are Muslim. I have no issues with them, they are contributing members of our community, but they are also not trying to force change on my location, I only wish this were true across Canada as a whole. I want a free country. A country where I can again feel safe, and I can feel confident in my government. Sadly, I don’t know if this will ever be the case in our country again, but one can certainly hope.

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Grievances Against Canada Laid Out-Trudeau’s Role Part 1

Grievances Against Canada Laid Out-Trudeau’s Role

Tony Peters and The Black Robe

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Canada has seen many wrongdoings happen in their past, from Riel to residential schools, and more examples listed below. With western abuse by an eastern Liberal government, continuing and worsening, many feel that they cannot ever trust the government of Canada again. A major reason behind the push for independence or separation from Canada. Listed below are a sampling of these grievances.

·        The use of military on Canadian citizens in the use of aviation search crafts for the 2 Canadian murders, in July, 2019. What this is in reference to, is that the RCMP was allowed by the government to use a military search craft, when hunting down 2 murderers that were avoiding the police in Gillam, Manitoba. Which in and of itself, is not a terrible thing, but when looked at in the broader scope of things, it sets a dangerous precedent. The use of military on Canadian citizens is supposed to be a last resort, not to hunt down murderers, otherwise what is to stop the government from utilizing the military to control citizens down the road? This is called a military dictatorship, but dictatorship is not something that this government shies away from, look at the censorship being used in a later point. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/homicide-northern-bc-manitaba-1.5227846

·        RCMP breaking the law in the High River gun grab. Police entered 4,666 homes during the 2013 High River flood, unlawfully. They seized guns that they claimed were “in plain sight”, but later it was revealed that they in fact searched for the weapons, without a warrant. This is an abuse of power by a government body that should be protecting its citizens, and upholding the law. No real inquiry attempt was made until 2019. https://highriveronline.com/local/province-holding-inquiry-into-high-river-gun-grab https://www.therebel.media/handsoffourguns

·        SNC-Lavalin Scandal. This one irks me. The large bribes to Libyan officials to obtain a contract worth far more. Then when accused of knowing about it and doing nothing, Trudeau chooses to deny it, after first saying no wrong was done. RCMP investigations, discovered that this was not the case, as well as the Ethics Commissioner declaring wrong doing. Something that should have been the end of Trudeau’s career, but nope, the east turns a blind eye to these crimes. Crimes which would have thrown any normal person in prison, but not even an impeachment for our drama teacher-turned Prime Minister. The Trudeau family can simply do no wrong. Governor General Jody Wilson-Raybould, was pushed and persuaded to offer a “deferred prosecution agreement with SNC-Lavalin”. She has admitted to many conversations with Trudeau himself and a few other Liberal leaders, where they basically ordered her to not pursue the matter. This eventually led to her being fired (she is not the one who should have been fired), she was shuffled into a position for Veteran’s Affairs, which was a show that Trudeau did nothing wrong by her, but a month later she resigned. Jane Philpott, another one of his trusted team, was appalled and she resigned as well, which lead Trudeau to fire both women from his Liberal Party. Sound like someone who respects women and the law? He was found to have committed many ethics violations in regards to this whole situation by the Ethics Commissioner, yet here he sits, as Prime Minister, all is forgiven for the Trudeau family in Eastern eyes. https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/election-2019/the-snc-lavalin-scandal-heres-whats-true-and-whats-false

·        Aga Khan’s Island Vacation Scandal in 2017. Accepting vacations from rich “friends”, especially ones who are high-up billionaire leaders of Muslim Sects, are a no-no for Prime Minister’s. Yet our honest leader, thought it wise to accept this gift, and saw nothing wrong with it. Giving an insincere apology after he was caught, and deemed to have broken more ethics laws. Again, accepting this bribe would have cost any other person their job, and gotten them jail time, but not for a Trudeau. “In a 66-page report, Mary Dawson, the commissioner, said that Mr. Trudeau’s 2016 vacation — and two other trips made by him or members of his family — broke four sections of Canada’s conflict-of-interest law for cabinet ministers, their staff members, senior public servants and others. While Ms. Dawson imposed no penalty on the prime minister, her finding takes the luster off Mr. Trudeau’s longstanding promise to run a government beyond reproach.” This was not the only case of Trudeau accepting bribes and gifts from those whom the government later also gives money to their organizations. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/20/world/canada/trudeau-aga-khan.html

·        Pedo-teacher accusation and cover up. In October of 2019 Trudeau paid $2.25 million to cover up accusations by a former student about a sexual affair he had with her, a student, while teaching at West Point Grey Academy, an elite private school. The money was for a non-disclosure agreement, yet another apparent cover up. He himself signed an NDA upon leaving the school. Also, another sexual accusation, they seem to pile up for Trudeau, making one wonder why this seems to pop up so often for him, especially when his father was a known philanderer. https://buffalochronicle.com/2019/10/10/trudeau-accusor-lands-a-seven-figure-nda-to-keep-quiet-about-his-west-grey-departure/

·        The elbow to another MP’s breast scandal. In 2016, Trudeau was upset with Conservative MP Gord Brown, so he strode into the group of MPs, grabbing Gord roughly by the arm. In doing so, he also elbowed MP Ruth Ellen Brousseau in the breast, so much so that she winced and cried out in pain. However, she received many calls blaming her for it, saying it was her fault, typical blind eastern mentality, and quite frankly, insulting, as they likely would not have said the same thing about a man. Trudeau has “apologized” in the form of his typical half-apology half-excuse nature. He said that while he was reaching for Gord’s arm, which by the way, is also not allowed, he unintentionally elbowed Ruth. Ruth said it correctly when she asked how he thought it was going to end. Yet another case of breach of Parliamentary rules, and basically blames it on Ruth for being in the way. Trudeau needs to take ownership of his actions, that is what a leader does, but sadly Trudeau has already proven, time and time again, that he is not capable of being a leader. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/20/justin-trudeau-elbow-ruth-ellen-brosseau-cananda-parliament

·        The groping of a female reporter in her early twenties, back when Trudeau was 28. The reporter told her bosses at the time about it, and they believed her. Trudeau has always claimed to remember “no negative interactions” from the time of this incident. This allegedly occurred in August of 2000, at a Creston, BC festival. Nothing was done once again, due to lack of proof, but considering this is not the only accusation of this nature, it does make one wonder. https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/why-an-18-year-old-groping-allegation-against-justin-trudeau-is-not-a-metoo-moment

·        $10.5 million payoff to a known terrorist. In 2017, Trudeau and the Liberals paid off known terrorist Omar Khadr. A large payment to someone who has knowingly had ties to terrorism, saying that his rights were violated. One could ask then, what about the rights of all Canadians to feel safe in their country and not have to worry about loose immigration screening policies, that allow immigration from known terrorist countries? Sadly, this was not the first payout of its kind. In 2017, Trudeau also used tax payer dollars to pay over $31 million, split between 3 men who were wrongfully imprisoned in Syria, claiming that the Canadian government was at fault. What a year! 1 known terrorist paid off, and 3 suspected terrorists paid off! There is $42 million in tax revenue the country will never see back, money likely put back into terrorist coffers. Money that could have been spent helping our homeless veterans. https://globalnews.ca/news/3826253/ottawa-pays-settlement-of-31-25m-to-3-men-falsely-imprisoned-in-syria/ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/trudeau-defends-apology-and-105-million-payment-to-omar-khadr/article35623594/

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Unemployment Rates Historical Comparison East VS. West

Unemployment Rates Historical Comparison East VS. West

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Last week we looked at poverty and the middle-class, and how they relate to Canadians. Now we are going to take a look at a subject that ties in these previous articles. Unemployment directly affects poverty and homelessness. In Canada, our governments could be doing much more to help this problem, federal, provincial, and municipal. Before getting into solutions, taking a look at the facts and stats around unemployment in Canada is necessary. 

Tradingeconimcs.com has some really great information in regards to this subject. They describe the unemployment rates as the “number of people actively looking for a job as a percentage of the labour force.” In other words, this means that it is measuring the amount of people who are able to work, who are of age, and yet are unemployed, in Canada this includes 15 year-olds. Most recently October 2019, showed Canadian unemployment rates at 5.5% which has been fairly consistent since July bouncing between 5.5% and 5.7%. Canada did see a loss of 1, 800 full time positions, but then replaced those with 14,300 part time jobs. Which is a trend happening around the world, replacing full time jobs with part time jobs. This means that more people have jobs, leading to lower unemployment rates, but leading to lower paying jobs, meaning more poverty, or struggling families. Since 1966 Canada has averaged an unemployment rate of 7.62%. In December 1982 this was at its highest rate of 13.10%, which was due to policies and economic decisions made in the United States. The lowest rate recorded falls in at 2.90% in June of 1966. Which means our current rates are below average, but it does vary across the country and across job sectors. Canada saw drops in the manufacturing, warehousing, construction, and transportation areas, but a significant increase in administrative, finance, insurance, real estate, rental, leasing, and agricultural employment. We also saw differences based upon age, ages 15-24 saw no changes, but 24-55 year-old workers dropped in employment, while those aged 55 and over increased in employment. Not quite the shift I expected, but considering the manual labour job loss, it should not come as a real surprise. 

If we look at Stats Canada, we can see how these rates are dependant upon the province and territory one lives in. As of the summer the stats were as follows, nationally 5.7% was the average. The provincial breakdown: BC 4.3%, Alberta, 6.7 %, Saskatchewan 5.2%, Manitoba 5%, Ontario, 5.2%, Quebec 5%, New Brunswick 7.2%, PEI 9%, Nova Scotia 6.5%, Newfoundland and Labrador 12.4%. These numbers vary depending on how diversified each province is in their economy. Maritime provinces tend to rely on many seasonal jobs, and so they end up with higher rates depending on the season, otherwise many will leave for other provinces to work in the off-season. In the territories we see Yukon with 2.7%, NWT with 7.3%, and Nunavut with 14.1%. Yukon has more Ocean access and the ability to help in BC with forestry/fishery jobs, whereas NWT and Nunavut do not have these options, and are far more spread out in population bases, increasing the unemployment numbers. A good way around this issue, is for provinces and territories to diversify their economies, so when one commodity crashes, they have others to fall back on. Compared to other developed countries, Canada ranks middle of the pack in unemployment rate success. Switzerland leads the pack with 2.2% unemployment, and South Africa comes in at the bottom with 29.1%, which also reflects poverty rates in these countries. 

If we then take a closer look at the situation with the territories, conferenceboard.ca has great reasoning behind their issue. They claim to have 2 factors behind the higher than national average unemployment rates. One is that southern workers travel up north to take the higher-paying jobs that take more skill, but they do not stay to live there. The same problem the west sees with workers from the Maritimes. The second comes in the form of “economic expansion”, this has pushed more people from the north to search for jobs, but not all will be able to locate a job, resulting in more unemployment. Yukon, thankfully has avoided these issues, maintaining one of the lowest unemployment rates in Canada. 

They do also provide information on how unemployment rates can vary depending on immigration status. In 2018, those born in Canada had a 5.2% unemployment rate, newly landed immigrants were at 6.1%, immigrants landed less than 5 years were at 9.4%, immigrants landed within 5-10 years were at 6.4%, and Immigrants who have lived here for more than 10 years were sitting at 5.3%. I do have an issue with these stats though. First of all, immigrants who come to Canada need to be able to support themselves and not rely on tax pay dollars to keep them afloat, these numbers simply raise our countries unemployment stats. Secondly, if they cannot maintain a job in Canada, then they should not be allowed to remain in Canada. We have a lot of homelessness and poverty in Canada, so returning people who are not working back home help us to support those who truly need the help and are Canadians. This would apply for anyone who does not have a citizenship. 

During Stephen Harper’s time as Prime Minister the country did fairly well economically, with the exception of the 2008-09 recession, in which Canada was hit less hard than the United States. Our unemployment rate hit 8.3% but since we seemed better prepared, Canada was able to not be struck as hard as the United States, who were bleeding jobs up to a total of 2.6 million jobs, according to CNN Money. Too many lost jobs in both countries, but Canada’s preparation helped the country to rebound quicker and to help other countries try to rebound. However long term the US has been able to recover to lower unemployment rates, having the US rates drop to as low as 4.9%. Canada was able to recover in a short amount of time after this, mainly due to the quick thinking of Stephen Harper, who was able to get a trade deal with China, which shortened the recovery period, although some might say China is a terrible partner to support. Then when moved forward to 2016, when Justin Trudeau was in his second year as Prime Minister, rates dropped again, which has a lot to do with failed promises, harmful bills, and failed projects. One such failure would be the $4.5 billion purchase of the Kinder Morgan pipeline, which then got sidelined by the Vancouver area blocked it from going through and had it upheld by the Supreme Court of Canada (Huffington Post) Another threat would come in the form of Bill C-69, which makes a lot more red-tape in place for any future pipelines; it has been deemed the “Pipeline Killer”, according to Global News. The purchase and failure to proceed as planned with the pipeline to the BC coast, and a bill making it difficult to complete oil projects, made it very tough for the West and cost many jobs and a lot of money. Atlantic jobs were affected by this as well. Another factor in this was a struggle to recover after the oil price crashed in 2014, which has taken years to try to rebound from, a struggle that still shows today, hindered further by Federal environmental laws. To further read into this, check out conferenceboard.ca. 

Unemployment rates due to economic crashes, like in Alberta, can cause a spike in poverty and homelessness rates, which we have seen in the west. I won’t get too far into this topic though, as I have a whole previous article dedicated to that, (https://authortonypeters.blogspot.com/2019/11/keep-foreign-aid-money-in-canada.html and https://authortonypeters.blogspot.com/2019/11/trudeau-considering-supplying-vancouver.html). I will say that in 2017 Stats Canada placed 3.4 million or 9.5% of Canadians below the poverty line, which is not very clear, but they say the line is $25,000/year for single adults, but $40,000 for families, which seems low to me. Wages tend to play a big role in this, especially since so many people are having to work 2 jobs to make a living. The part time job trend has made this more pronounced. The wage of an average Canadian is $25.55, but this can be a hard stat to set with Salaries, self-employment, farming, and contract work. 

When looking to set up a policy around employment, a lot of factors must be considered, as there will always be some unemployment, largely in part to people moving to find jobs, shifting between workplaces, or a change in career. Canadians tend to have the highest rates of moving between cities and provinces to move to a labour mobility, according to conferenceboard.ca. The goal that should be kept in mind for policy setting, is to motivate all eligible workers in Canada to be able to find a job, no matter where in the country they are located. When families and locations have longer periods of unemployment it destroys and tears apart families and communities, so these periods need to be acted upon quickly. This has been the situation in the west and Prime Minister Trudeau has not followed through on promises to help the west fix this problem. The west supplied thousands of jobs for eastern workers in their oil boom, but when government policy destroyed this market the easterners flooded back east, an option that westerners are left without. CBC estimated these workers as being 20%, or 1700 people up to 10,000 at one point.  Yet the east has then criticized and hindered their progress to try to recover and diversify. Another factor that could be looked at is technology. When new tech hits the market it often cuts out jobs, leading to a spike in unemployment, but as people receive training for the new tech, the rates drop, as people get jobs working with the new technology. This creates short-term unemployment spikes, followed by longer term employment spikes. There are times, however, when new tech actually destroys a sector and takes it over, resulting in devastating job loss rates, that will struggle to recoup, so when implementing new technology, caution must be exercised to avoid unemployment because of technological automation. 

When an area has low unemployment rates, employers will struggle to find employees and wages are going to be higher, making it harder for employers to get by. High wages can also boom the housing market, making it harder to buy a home due to the inflation. Can areas really control this though? On one hand they could, but should they? A boom does have to end at some point, often times with a crash, rather than the preferred gradual decline. Which is devastating; but being able to provide jobs for a long period of time is important, meaning that preventing the boom is counter-productive. The best way to deal with the situation, is to diversify, find ways of bringing in other economic opportunities while the boom is on, that way when a crash does happen, the area has other sectors to depend on. Not everything is within a community or countries control however, a lot of this results from global and neighbouring countries globalization. American decisions affect our country greatly, and more recently, the decisions of the globe’s environmentally brain-washed movement. 

History tells of mistakes made in this regard, but also tells of successes. Provides educational opportunities in what not to do, as well as what to do. Listening to these lessons, can guide Canada through economic struggle, to help make Canada prosperous again. This does require governments that will listen. Our government cares not what happens in the west, which has made recovery, which the west is working at on their own, more challenging. All levels of government should assist areas that are struggling, not ignoring one half of the country and helping one province that has had it’s struggles. The whole country needs to be economically stable to lower unemployment rates and the rates of poverty. If we continue to have governments that ignore this, Canada will be led into further disaster. Work together to come up with a solution for the country as a whole. United we stand. Unify the West. 

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