Resource Jobs Increase in BC But Not in PG
Saturday, October 12, 2013 @ 4:21 AM
Prince George, B.C. – Employment in the natural resource sector may have dipped in Prince George last month, but the provincial government says B.C.’s resource industry job numbers are encouraging.
Statistics Canada reports that there were slight declines in the number of jobs in the natural resource and manufacturing sectors in Prince George in September. However it says a sizeable drop in the labour force as a whole is the reason the Prince George unemployment rate improved to 6.6%.
Meantime, the Clark government says B.C.’s primary industries added jobs in September with an increase of 8,400 jobs in forestry, fishing, mining and gas extraction, and 4,200 jobs in construction.
Overall, B.C. gained 2,900 full-time jobs in September. This gain was off-set by a decrease of 8,200 part-time jobs, resulting in an overall loss of 5,400 jobs. The provincial unemployment rate is now at 6.7 per cent, a slight increase of 0.1 per cent but still below the national average of 6.9 per cent.
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” This gain was off-set by a decrease of 8,200 part-time jobs, resulting in an overall loss of 5,400 jobs.”
I see the Liberal “Jobs Plan” is still on course… so lets see 11,700 jobs lost plus this 5,400 jobs lost equals; 17,100 jobs lost.
Maybe the Liberal should just call their plan a success and wrap it up, I don’t think BC can take anymore of this “Jobs Plan”.
“Resource jobs increase in BC but not in Prince George”?
But, but, but we are the bread basket of BC where the economy of BC originates?
Prince George Citizen, March 21, 2011:
“This is the bread basket of British Columbia. This is where our economy is built. And I think it’s crucially important — and it’s the job of any premier — to be a champion for rural and Northern British Columbia,” said Clark to large applause from the crowd of business, community and academic leaders.
During her leadership campaign, Clark said continuing to develop Northern B.C.’s economy would be a priority.
Wow… I can’t believe so many people bought that baloney, hook, line, and sinker!
I think more and more “people” are starting to come around to the stark realization that companies can setup shop and extract our resources without generating economic spin-offs to local communities.
For people like Janet Paterson, a former resident of Fort St. James, who now questions the lack of economic benefits to her former home town. The local employment numbers supports what she sees!
http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/article/20131011/PRINCEGEORGE0303/310119982/-1/princegeorge0303/natural-resource-projects-not-paying-off-for-communities
A fly-in-fly-out (FIFO), drive-in-drive-out (DIDO) and bus-in-bus-out (BIBO) workforce is the future of resource extraction, nice that the light bulb just turned on for another person, welcome to reality Janet!
Until we understand that the number one resource in the world is people, our “progress” will not be as good as those communities who understand that.
It is the knowledge based activities which have enabled “progress”. Without it we would not be able to drill for oil, drive cars, travel by planes, wash dishes more easily, communicate by voice and video across the world, etc. etc. etc.
All the wood and the coal and the gas and the oil and the sun and the wind and the tides and the atoms in the world would be useless to us unless we discover how to use them and how to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of our use of them.
So, put that in your pipes, smoke it, and start using those brains of yours to come to some understanding of what really drives this world.
The sooner we all do that, the sooner we will get on with taking in the riches which are at our disposal.
So, I do note know what People#1 is supposed to mean, but people are our #1 resource.
So, handle our #1 resource carefully. ;-)
gus nailed it. People first, every thing else should be, and needs to be, second.
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