Congratulations for the speedy repair job. Prince George can't afford not to have these jobs and the diversification that comes with this company.

Oh DPJ you sure know how to annoy those clean (cough) air types. Apparently jobs are optional for those people.

Amazing how they were able to find people to actually do this work. Maybe Ghiai should give them a call. Especially since these may very well have been mechanical contractor types.

;-)

Burning wood is diversification? Been making pellets in this community for more than 10 years. Been burning wood since the dawn of man-controlled fire.

Making structurally shaped pressed wood furniture from this stuff .... now that would be diversification!!!!!

I would say that you would increase the labour force for such a company by 10 fold at least! If you then compare that to jobs per cubic meter of wood fibre, the value added will go up 100+ fold.

Same olde, same olde ..... take the easy, unimaginative, and uncomplicated route out. Bunch of carpetbaggers is all we have.

OWL FOR MAYOR...think of the jobs he would create with a wood furniture manufacturer.

There are a hundred different products or more that we COULD be making. The problem is they would have to be priced really low or people would buy from overseas instead. The problem isnt that there are no business ideas or people to carry them out. The problem is that regardless of how pro PG we are we still tend to buy the cheapest food, furniture and so on, regardless of where it comes from.

What we fail to understand is that many of those countries that have high labour rates compared to those that have low labour rates still manage to create value by producing products and providing services.

Generally speaking, those countries that have been providing raw materials and have not diversified have not been doing that well in the 20th century, with the expection of those countries who have fossil fuels, epsecially oil and gas. They have changed their economic position radically since the 1960s following the creation of OPEC.

So, all of Scandinavia and Western Europe are high wage and high standard of living countries. So are Japan, Taiwan, South Korea. Most have few, if any, natural resources.

Their natural resource is people; people who are well educated and can work at producing higher end goods and services by remaining efficient in a world that continues to change as it always has.

So, don't allow yourself to have high wages versus low wages provide you with a mental block. You will be defeated from the start. Look at what activities are successful in high wage countries and begin to emulate them.

More money for research, more money to subsidize start up companies that can compete on a global scale, more money on technical education, more money to promote start up partnerships with successful world companies, etc. etc. Look at how those countries act as a "development operation". Look at how large cities and regional governments are acting as "development operations".

From those I know who are in touch with the international business scene the most common reaction from foreign business visitors appears to be their suprise at all the opportunities we have, given the riches of natural resources and comparatively high level of education, and how little we do with that.

People all over the world are bargain hunters. Bargaining and getting something at what one thinks is a deal has been going on for thousands of years.

Mayors do not create jobs. Mayors lead by example. Mayors instill a can do attitude. Mayors and the Cities they lead create the climate for successful and continuing enterprise.