bla bla bla… insert “opportunity and affordability”

Good luck finding people who want to work! Better yet ones who want to work, who have a class 5 DL and can pass a piss test! If you add a grade 12 education to the other 2 requirements, you have eliminated 80-90% of the applicants!

Continuation of the IPG buzz words. just another big hole to fill with taxpayer dollars.

Yup, resident,- it took me a minute or two to figure out what IPG even stood for.

“There are more than $35 billion dollars worth of projects planned”

Good lord … I wish someone at IPG would show some real initiative and identify how many of the projects have been carried on the provincial project lists for decades and have never come to fruition.

What is a more realistic figure of projects over the short term of 5 years based on knowledge of the projects and the conditions which will have to exist for them to become reality?

There might be $5 or whatever billion in there for Enbridge for instance. If that were to come about, what would the real dollar flow be through local workers as opposed to pipeline manufacturers back east, rail transportation from there to here, local welders rather than Albertan/Chinese welders, etc. etc.

I wonder if the $13 billion proposed refinery is in there as well. If it isn’t then it will soon bring the figure from $35 to $48 billion …..

Cut the BS and give us some realistic figures based on past performance and better knowledge of the projects on the inventory list.

Show us that you can actually do the job you are supposed to do!!!

IPG = Institute for Problem Gambling ……

I wish they would quite with these pre-announcement announcements. I think they do more harm than good to the message they want to send.

Build up expectations … and then blah, a big fizzle ……

“As a result of increased economic activity we are also seeing employment demand increase in supporting sectors”

Yes, we were just told about the increased demand for exotic dancers getting ready for the increased transient worker population.

Actually, it just hit me …. maybe we could create an exotic dancer training centre at one of the closed schools. Already zoned for education …. ;-)

“Build up expectations … and then blah, a big fizzle ……” in a nutshell, downtown PG since the Bay moved out.

Looked at IPG quarterly report the other day and saw that the new hotel was prominently featured saying that it will be complete by the end of next year. Really?

They also list every project right down to a grand. What kind of improvements can you do for a thousand bucks these days. What’s next ” the owners of 5555-5th ave bought a COSTCO sized bottle of Windex to improve the glass facade of their business” ;)

IPG- International Peeler’s Group :O

Is IPG ever popular on this site. Heather I guess is just being a new broom at the expense of the tax payer.
Cbeers

More of the same. Didn’t IPG and the chamber launch a similar project a few years back and then IPg and the immigrant and multicultural society teamed up to reinvent the wheel about a year after that and now the same plan (with a new face) is being trotted out again.

Why does the city spends so much of our hard earned tax dollars on economic development with little accountability? There likely isn’t a city anywhere that spends even close to tax dollars IPG goes through. Hopefully the core review sheds some light on this and at least cuts the budget in half to bring in line with other cities.

It says on the IPG Web site that Prince George is sustainable.

And exactly how was that determined?

1. The City population is lower now than it was in the past.

2. The infrastructure is not being maintained in a sustainable fashion.

Those are internal measures.

When measured externally by relating our state of well being to that of other cities in BC, it gets worse.

One of the responsibilities of IPG should be to provide a thorough annual state of the union report which is not PR based but objective information based which shows how we are doing on a “continuous improvement cycle”.

Had a chuckle when I saw “a typical Prince George family home” in the article that IPG put in BC Business magazine. I think someone got a little carried away with the space bar, it should read “atypical” family home!

I would challenge them to find a dozen or so homes like that within the city limits.

http://www.initiativespg.com/Documents/FinalEdPostedtoBCBiz.pdf

How much money does the city receive annually from IPG? Their mega buck cost of IPG every year justify little or none when it comes to a “return on investment”?

The caption read: “Two persectives of a typical Prince George family home”

Do you have any idea what a “persective” is, lonesome sparrow?

Actually, if the new Creekside development is any indication of a new PG family home of the future, they are mostly 3 storey buildings sitting on facecloth sized property while the one in the picure is sitting on a bath towel sized property.

So we don’t need more jobs, we need more people? Enbridge is all about the jobs, not the people.