What really happened during the LIBERAL PARTY's regime from 1991 to 2005? You wont believe that they have accomplished so many things and had employed so many people and migration of people from China, Hong Kong, Russia, America, and other European countries such as United Kingdom were at tolerable rate. Canada has that patience and perseverance and compassion for refugees from Yugoslavia, Hercegovina, Bosnia and they came like fast as lightning. The media coverage is not as much as controversial as it is today simply because internet is not popular yet until Year 2000. Although NEWS were spread only through CNN Cable news, CBC News and other local news. After the hot intriguing news of Y2K came like a shocking ordeal that everyone thought its the end of the world and stabilizing the new era of ultra modern world of Microsoft that every life on earth will be affected by this super great change of the New New World Millennium. The newspaper world has lost its ground. The pulp mills one by one shut down, saw mills vanished and there were lesser log ships arriving at the port of entries. There is no secrecy in this economic instability, because it's all over the news. Truth is, that's the TRUTH of newscasting. You can re-read newspapers, go to the libraries and find that out for yourself and or retrieve documentary videos of Canadian economy during the turbulent era. Heh. Making it so dramatic even if it's not. Could be fabrication. Who knows? But the pepper spray main event to dismantle daily protests during the Liberal party's leadership was awful!
Year 2000 when Microsoft lead the chip era, COMPUTERS, CELLPHONES, laser discs, softwares they were the IN THING and needless to say proven to be in demand. Tech people suddenly rise up, all of a sudden there are thousands of millionaires and hundreds of billionaires. With these hundred thousands of millionaires coming out of ying yang, the once wealthy people suddenly losing their wealth. Hard to understand. What happened? Investigations upon investigation remain futile. It's hard to fight the newly rich or noveau rich they control the media, they can control the whole world when it comes to providing news around the world because of high tech computer knowledge and high-tech skills. Can't fight it, they joined them.
Then the CONSERVATIVE PARTY came to work for the Canadian government under the leadership of PM Stephen Harper. There's no more pulp mills, no sawmills, the mining is down, forestry is down too. Do not blame the Conservative Party for that economic downturn, because political instability as well as economic slump happened first in the most highly developed countries: USA, Britain, European countries and what happened is like a domino effect. Canada becomes the recipient of refugees and millions of immigrants. How to employ these newly arrived immigrants and refugees? What to do? Terminate the jobs that belong to the natural born citizen of Canada and provide jobs for the new immigrants and refugees? That's unfair, right? It happened!!!! There were protests too from the public. Then the taser and laser guns were introduced to calm down would be rallyists. Forestry or the forest industry suffered as you probably know. You cannot cut down young trees for the sake of logging business. You can cut down trees for X'mas trees but you'll pay for them. What is Mr. Harper's contribution to the Canadian economy? Less tax? Sure less tax. Under the Liberal Party the PST (7%) and GST (7%) total of 14% and under Harper the tax is 12% for PST & GST. The goods and services are at favorable rate and prices. There's always no tax for FOOD. Things you cannot afford before, you can afford them now, which is true. TAKE NOTE of that. Tele-communication for long distances thr. landline is way cheaper now.Very competitive globalworld and competition is the main event when it comes to hi-tech. Taxes were higher during the Liberal Party just because the forestry, pulp mills and sawmills and mining contributed to Canadian economy. Without those source of employment what's next? He encouraged the blue collar work in department stores, housing, auto-industry, music industry and volunteerism and other less favorable job where only few of the population tried. With several big box stores and other foreign retail outlets coming to Canada employing tens of thousands of people that's where economy is in his vision. Small business access is favorable. Not enough though so where the big bucks are coming from? Yeah nature, Canada is a HUGE reservoir of natural resources. Billions of dollars (probably trillions of dollars) are made, invested and profited from large dairy farms, cattle ranches, other source of live stocks, fish and seafood. Export is one of the main source of income. Canada is blessed with NATURAL RESOURCES especially of WATER, GAS, CRUDE, OIL and man made resources. Natural resources become part of tourism. Manpower source is also it's biggest asset. So tell you frankly the biggest downfall is only through the forestry because of the big boom of computers. It's just that there are too many alternatives, when one doesn't work as it is because it will take another 30 to 50 years to harvest millions of trees. That's how CONSERVATISM came into effect like it's the biggest bill ever. Oh, thank PM Harper with the raise in wages. It was under his regime that the wage increase happened. The minimum wage at present time is $10.25/hour, previously $10/hour. Big jump from the $7.00/hr minimum wage during the reign of the Liberal party.
However, with those ravishing wildfires that contributed to the downfall of so many million of Canadian trees this year of 2015, what to harvest within the next 30-50 years when these trees were ravaged by fire? You can just wish that you can still make use of those burnt wood into coal, charcoal and ink.
Where PM Harper is at its weakest point? Education. educating the true Canadians is not his forte. Those who benefited from Education and loans are mostly foreign students and those immigrants. Why the immigrants became stronger and more enthusiastic in finding employment in Canada? Simply they don't have a choice but to work in a foreign land. Immigrants are not choosy or fuzzy when it comes to being employed. Instead of being indebted, young students will drop out of college and find work right away where their skills are used to gain wages favorable to their talent and skills. Contract works are more in demand, less benefit and no unions involved which doesn't stand up to most of the workers. Simply where Canada is going?
Looking for profit in the Health sector is such a negative vibe. Health is something that doesn't need to be profitable because saving lives should be a mandatory practice of humanity. People have been helped so many times in the social assistance programs.
The price of commodities are going down? Price of Vehicles: truck, car, vans going up or down? Price of houses going down or going up? To see is to believe?
Correct me if I'm wrong. I had these news report from watching television news in Canada since the day I arrived in 1992 and never stop watching TV News everyday, every hour, every minute and seconds of my daily life. I watched TV while I cook. I watch TV while I crochet, sew clothes, read books, blog, bake and it's always a multi-tasking "work." I can remember some data hard to forget and knew if its fabricated, fiction, lie or deception. Most of the time, it seems like a conspiracy, rather consPERAcy. They call it business as usual. Good for the society? Maybe, maybe not!
