Sweet, can I have money too?

I think we see these kind of headlines all too often in remote communities that depend on the resource industry to provide jobs. The industry should be bearing that burden, in all cases, not the general public. It should be a cost of doing business. Most of the products of resource industry benefit customers in some other parts of the world.

Perhaps there is an export tax placed on those raw materials to provide for retraining of the temporary workforce.

Is this part of the technically skilled workforce we are saying we have millions of jobs for without enough positions to fill so that we have to hire foreign workers? What re-training will these people need? Looks like they will have a job waiting for them somewhere in Canada as soon as they have been retrained for the jobs of the future.

Why can they not be hired by the industries that want such ready-made workers and then retrained by those companies that hire them? Give those companies the money. Colleges simply train on a whim and a prayer that there will be jobs at the end. No guarantees. I thought the government had learned that lesson by now.

What “guarantee” is there that anyone will continually have a ‘job’? Or even if that job itself is ‘guaranteed’, that it will always provide an income adequate to cover the ongoing costs of living? Any company can only provide jobs if the cost of them is recoverable in the price of the product or service it’s trying to provide. Companies can only ‘get’ money, just like the rest of us ~ they, or we, no matter what we all do, don’t ever create it. And what we get is ultimately subject to terms, for it’s ‘on loan’, and it has to be paid back. And when it can’t be, well, we simply are denied the getting of any more of it.

This may be the same program that was offered to displaced mill workers from Rustads. (Only four applied) persons seeking money from the grant will NOT receive money in the form of cheques or cash.. The mine workers may have to do pre testing at the College of their choice, to find their education leval, then talk to counsellors on what programs best suite them, if their education or grade Twelve is more than five years old, upgrading is enforced before a college course is taken, also the person taking a course has to pay prior for all courses and have copy of admission given to Provincial and Federal government before being reimbursed the Original cost of the courses… I’ve been through it.. Very helpful.. But be prepared to run around for two days doing anitial paperwork and then a day of testing.. Also most courses do not start the very next day. There are set semesters at Colleges, and the government will want semester grades to see if the money given was a positive action, if skipping school and failing is found. You may have to reimburse the costs back to Government. It’s a searius program for searius persons that want a education or trade.

Does the Government and CNC expect the Endako Mine to be closed for a long time??? If not then why is there a need for training. Will be mine be closed until after everyone,s unemployment insurance has run out??