If he cares about Canadians and Canadian jobs then he should oppose CETA and TPP. These free trade agreements undermine our sovereignty to protect Canadian industry; and only serve to enable the monopoly capitalists of globalization who undermine small business and free enterprise… which are the real producers of Canadian jobs.

Yesss he can still put the pipelines where the sun don’;t shine.

As for forestry, quit inventing one man logging operations and instead get more people back in the forest with their saws

Get Canadian retail back instead of all the American box office. That takes away all our travel plans to hunt in another town for new merchandize and take family trips at the same time..

ohhh quit feeding yer dogs steaks and then advertize about it when all the unfortunate are scrounging for food

Yeah lets just keep our heads in the sand and not send our troops to help out the UN. Instead we will just keep accepting refugees instead of addressing the root cause of why there are refugees in the first place.

Doherty states; “We’re seeing unprecedented job losses right now and it’s even impacting us in our riding,” he says. “Oil and gas and forestry.”

But then the Christy Clark Lib/Con political spin is “BC is enjoying unprecedented job growth”.

I guess there are times when even our right wing politicians will disagree with each other, so who is right here? What is the reality of the situation with jobs? The Stats Canada facts supports Doherty’s words and NOT the positive spin Christy Clark government. Just thought I would clear that bit of discrepancy up!

And yet the same publication you are quoting from had this to say about BC

“B.C.’s unemployment slipped in August following two months of hefty gains but momentum remained positive.

Employment fell 0.3% to a seasonally adjusted 2.39 million persons as a drop in part-time was partly offset by a 1.2% increase in full-time counts. B.C.’s jobless rate eased to 5.5%, to mark a third straight monthly decline.

Like headline growth, employment changes from July in most industries were statistically insignificant – exceptions being gains in business, building and other support services (4.1%) and in information, culture and recreation (3.8%), and a 2.4% contraction in health care and social assistance.

Even with the dip, B.C. remained far ahead of the national performance with a year-over-year gain of 3.1%. Comparatively, national employment, while up 0.1% from July, was anemic year-over-year at 0.5%. Year-to-date, B.C. employment growth averaged 3.5%, reflecting the province’s stronger economy and approaching the strongest gain since 1994.”
https://www.biv.com/article/2016/9/bc-employment-down-august/

I’m not so sure that any of you should be using or referring to Stats Canada’s numbers, at least not for a while.

After all, Stats Canada’s Chief statistician has just quit over Justin’s failure to protect Statistics Canada’s independence!

“Chief statistician resigns over government’s failure to ‘protect the independence’ of StatsCan”

‘I do not wish to preside over the decline of … a world-leading statistical office,’ says Wayne Smith

ht tp://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/statscan-wayne-smith-resigns-1.3765765

ht tp://globalnews.ca/news/2944753/head-of-statistics-canada-resigns-citing-lack-of-independence/

Anyone with half a brain and a butt knows that there is some serious unemployment in our area. This is a result of coal mine closures at Tumbler Ridge, Sawmill closures at Houston and Quesnel (The most recent) mine closures at Endako Mines and Huckleberry Mine in Houston, to name a few.

We may have had some job growth however my guess is that the growth was in the retail industry, and was probably part time jobs, and low paying full time jobs. So overall a net loss of income revenue.

In my opinion BC and especially North Central BC is being held up with bobby pin and a piece of cheap string, and we can expect a devastating crash anytime, especially if we do not get a softwood lumber agreement, and get Alberta back on track.

Just for your information there is enough oil pipeline in the world to circle the earth 28 times. An oil pipeline to the West Coast is really not that big of a deal. What has happened is the the loopy left, and the environmentalists have stolen the show, and have convinced people that pipelines are bad.

When we lose another 5000 jobs in the oil industry which has a trickle down effect on BC and the Interior, maybe people will wake up and smell the roses.

Alberta has lost some 42000 jobs in the past two years in the oil industry, and it is not over yet.

So hang on to your butt, because we are in for at rough ride.

Determining job losses in Alberta over the past 2 years seems to be a guessing game. Without doing an analysis myself, a good reference seems to be an article written by CBC News in Calgary. It was published in July of this year.

It begins by stating that estimates of job losses vary widely.

1. the Survey of Employment, Payroll and Hours (SEPH) suggests that from December 2014 until April 2016, 3,853 jobs were lost in Alberta in oil and gas extraction

2. a further 29,196 in jobs that support energy and mining extraction (notice ALL of mining is included in this one)

3. then we have the Labour Force Survey which indicates that 43,000 jobs have been lost in mining, forestry, fishing, quarrying, and oil and gas over that same period.

4. the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, estimates that 44,000 jobs were lost since the downturn began

5. competing with all those, Enform, a group funded by industry, pegged the number at 28,145 in direct job losses last year (which is just a one-year period, not 1.5 years) across the country (not only in Alberta, but also BC, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland).

Why is it so difficult to estimate?

The Survey of Employment, Payroll and Hours provides the closest to a hard count. The numbers some from payroll reports to CRA. It becomes confusing due to many inter-provincial employees. It records the location where the job was cut, not the location where the employee lives.

The Labour Force Survey is based on a telephone survey and measures people out of work in the province where they live, not the province where they worked. Thus people who live in this part of BC, but commuted to work in Alberta would be measures in BC as unemployed.

UI provides another set of data. In December 2014, 31,220 Albertans were collecting benefits. In April 2016, there were 67,900, a difference of around 35,000. Some of those people collecting EI would have run out of benefits, or found work, or moved to another province.

So, the number of job losses in Alberta in the range of 40,000 is certainly reasonable, but goes beyond just the oil industry. It is the entire extractive energy sector and its support workers and includes interprovincial as well as international workers. I know one tech person who worked in Saskatchewan’s energy extraction industry and was laid off. He lived in Florida originally and moved to Washington State to be closer to work.

“We’re seeing unprecedented job losses right now (in Canada)”. Nothing unprecedented in our economic region.

From Stats Canada

For the Cariboo Economic Region

Here are the year over years stats from the Cariboo Economic Region followed by BC

labour force
August 2015 = 86,800
August 2016 = 86,500

Employment
August 2015 = 80,000; rate = 62.8%
August 2016 = 79,800; rate = 62.4%

Unemployment
August 2015 = 6,800; rate = 7.8%
August 2016 = 6,700; rate = 7.7%
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For BC

labour force
August 2015 = 2,564,500
August 2016 = 2,485,100

Employment
August 2015 = 2,334,800; rate = 60.2%
August 2016 = 2,416,800; rate = 61.4%

Unemployment
August 2015 = 150,400; rate = 6.1%
August 2016 = 147,700; rate = 5.8%

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Unemployment over the year went from 5.5% to 8.6% in the Northeast Economic Region

The next worst one was from 5.1% to 6.8% in the Thompson-Okanagan Economic Region

The lower mainland – southwest went from 5.8% to 5.4%

The best performer was Vancouver Island and Coast from 6.3% to 5.0%