Paddy you are right on the money, Mr. Robson claims that “Unions could soon bankrupt BC”, god what a crock, it is unions that have given Canadian workers all the benefit's union and non-union workers take for granted, or to be more correct what we used to take for granted, the unions were even responsible for all the highly skilled apprentice and journeyman trades people Canada used to be blessed with, unlike the present situation where they have to bring in foreign workers because we supposedly do not have qualified people to do them, yes unions fought for those benefits and skills and a living wage but everyone ended up benefiting from and getting them in the end, now that the unions have been systematically busted and marginalized by the Federal and Provincial governments those hard fought benefits and wages are rapidly disappearing.
Unions are a necessary advocate or lobby if you will, for the worker’s, the very entity that attempts to ensure labour gets it’s fair share of the GDP or meaningful employment, they quite simply make Capitalism work for the workers.
But enough about something that unless you live in a cave thousands of miles from civilization everybody should already know, the reality as Mr. Robson well knows is it is not the unions bringing the world including BC to it’s knees it is to big to fail corporations, bank’s and CEO’s who make more by lunch on January 1 than most workers make all year, the insatiable greed of the one percent who are literally sucking the well dry, killing the golden goose.
The citizens of BC now pay more for just MSP than all the corporations that use our infrastructure, roads, bridges all the services and utilities our taxes pay for, for literally nothing, not to mention the depletion of our rich renewable and non-renuable resources they get for a pittance, well below world market prices.
Canadian's then get to watch these robber baron companies bring cheap wage foreign national workers in to even do the labour to extract these precious resources or simply outsource those Canadian jobs, they then take their ill gotten tax free gains and put them in a offshore tax shelter out of reach of Canadians never to be seen again, therefore also depriving Canada of any multiplier affect from the exploitation of our valuable resources, and of course the wages are all sent home to China.
After the resources are all gone what will Canadians and their children have to show for this obscene orgy of destructive exploitation, nothing but a environmental nightmare a Canada stripped of it’s natural resources and an environmental nightmare that we will have to clean up at our expense or more likely just try to live amongst the toxic devastation this insanity has produced and our children will wonder what were we thinking, and how did we let it go so wrong.
The powers that be have refined the exploitation process to the point that they have even figured out how to take the trickle out of the mythical trickle down affect.
If Mr. Robson and the rest of the chosen few get their way Canada and the whole rest of the world will be nothing more than a giant third world with the chosen few filthy rich and the filthy poor with no middle class to speak of,
Mr. Robson’s Brave New World really does not look so much new but more 18th century.
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