There is a Labor Shortage in Canada

Most roughnecks make about $22,50 Hr thats a plus when you work seven twelves

All friendly banter here, I'm sure. Still, you gotta admit that looking at us from the outside would have some folks scratching their head. Not to mention some of us looking at ourselves from the inside. (About Brazil: yep, good point)

Oh no doubt, no doubt at all. I'm torn between doing that myself and trying to look past it to what can be done to improve the situation. I wouldn't try just to knock canada without acknowledging that for every problem I point to there, the us would seem to display it in spades. My point was more that there is no lasting solution to any of our internal problems other than confronting them. It might not be desirable for everybody, given how disconcerting recent developments have been, but as much as I love canada and its people it doesn't offer a cure all to the average american's woes.

We will take our igloos you can have your economic collapse and police state.

Lots of wells being drilled in the Valley. I have a bunch of family working down that way. Drillers and pushers

I could not agree more. I am just trying to offer a few job positions to our American friends and there seems to be a few who don't appreciate that to much.

You're a swell guy to do this but you have to remember these people have been brainwashed for years into believing they are better than anyone. It may be insulting to them to be offered something better.

From those sources you refered me to, Real Econ TV, and BrassCheck TV,
I wonder if Canada has Economic Hit Men as there are here in the USA. I have
a feeling they don't. I got an update from them today. They talk of Banksters
using hit men to make other countries a " deal they can't refuse " on the threat
of destabilization & overthrow of their legitimate Government. The loans are
deliberately engineered to be fraudulent because they're designed in a way
that the Banksters know in advance they can never be repaid. They are
instead intended to enable the multi national Corporations the Banksters
represent, move in, and perform the supposed services on a maximized
profit margin benefiting only the Corporation to the detriment of the country
they invade, so that the Corporation can dominate them, being subjected to
debt slavery. It's Monsanto's classic pattern of their invasion of India by means
of stealing Indian farmers' lands, and causing mass suicides. As my educational
history involves Psychology & Law, and as I've had a unique opportunity to
study criminology since 1968, I'm not surprised at these Organized Crime style
tactics. It's always been said if you want to be rich, own a successful Bank.
But if you want to be uberrich, invest in ownership of a central Bank like the Fed.
As Monsanto has weaponized food, the Banksters behind Monsanto have
weaponized money by debt basing it on a Ponzi Scheme. This ultimately has
to have a pervasive effect in the labor markets of all countries with a central
bank since the Government looks to them to manage their countries' economies.

Sounds like the "Shock Doctrine" to me, PressCore.

He's not a teabagger. Our Conservatives are nothing like yours.

Denial from the juvenile.

If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck... than he's a teabagger as are his supporters and defenders.

Juvenile. I have been living in this country since the 50s. He does not walk like a teabagger. He does not talk like a teabagger. As a matter of fact we do not have a teabagger movement of any kind in this country that I am aware of. He does not invoke the name of Christ. Our Conservatives are not attacking women's health rights. They are not trying to dismantle universal health care. Tell me some of the things our Conservatives have said or done that makes them so much like the Tea Party Republicans. And this conversation is about the jobs we need to fill.

I think I too would minimize and deny the fact that for almost a decade straight my country elected a teabagger to the world stage to represent me.

How is he like a Tea Party Republican? What pollicies do the Canadian Conservatives have that reflect the Tea Party republican agendas? All you have done is call him a tebagger. Now if you can, back it up. Are you here to deflect the conversation? Do you want a job?

Trollolololo

You're wasting your time dude ...pssst (twirls index finger around my ear)

Big time

There are a few open jobs here in Calgary Alberta in the field... some colleges are hiring and starting wage isn't terrible depending on your experience. You'll probably wait just as long to see a doctor and he'll probably be from a different country but at least it's free and as an added bonus you'll get to experience the soul crushing decline of a country I'm sure you'll come to love. See or PM thinks that your country is the greatest thing since sliced bread and is doing everything he can to make us just like our brother to the south. And yes I wish I was just being sarcastic.

Why are you doing that? We are nothing like the U.s. and never will be, no matter how anybody tries. Yes he is a conservative, but Canadians will not just let him do whatever he likes. Don't you remember when he wanted to change the truth in advertising laws in2008 and the uproar from the Canadian citizens shut him down in a heartbeat. do you think that would have stopped an American Conservative? Every time we get one of these conversations going we all, me too, turn it into Conservative vs, Liberal. Does anybody want a job.

Good question -I would like to know as well.

Hey Cool as Hell. Thanks jim... =)

Thanks remanns, I will check the link jim posted for me this evening and let Ya Know... Or you can check it yourself and let me know... =)

Yes I remember that... he also had a minority government and had to worry about his precarious hold on power... then we decided we'll try and give him all the power he needs and yes right now he can do anything he wants. None of the Conservative MPs are going to break ranks and our senate is a joke. I'm not trying to bash the Country. I love Canada and we are in way better shape then the US is. I just wish we had a Centrist government who didn't wish we were the 52nd state.

People can come to Canada and work on a foreign worker permit too. And last Tuesday the Canadian dollar closed at 99.7 cents U.S. I don't know what you mean by counter- intuitive. We are a left leaning country.

Wasn't referring to politics. Economics. I'd always figured Canada had some economic reliance on the US..... not directly..... just due to proximity. I assumed that if we were down you were down too.

You have been our number one trading partner for a long time. But we aren't blind. We can see what George W. did, and what Conservatives in general have been doing down there. When your best trading partner becomes a complete greed obsessed fiscal moron you start looking for other partners to trade with. And we did. The United Kingdom countries and China to name a few.

"complete greed obsessed fiscal moron"

hmmm, sounds like the current GOP presidential line-up,
add a very unhealthy dose of über-morality, and you have it!

The Harper government is not left leaning.

The whole country is left leaning. We just happen to have Conservatives in power right now. They have tried do things like change our truth in media laws so that Rupert Murdoch could set up Fox News North, repeal health premiums and fund faith based schools and it all went over like a ton of bricks. We keep a pretty good leash on our Conservatives.

You can't honestly say you think trading with China is better then trade with the US. At the US has labor laws and half tries and protects it's workers.

Did not say that at all. You are still our number one trading partner. We do trade with the Chinese. But not nearly on the level you do. And I would not get to indignant. It's not us that owes them a boat load of money.

+^d

If that is the case then how did they get elected? And why are they running roughshod over the environment? Canada is right up there with the US as far as per capita CO2 emissions. And your treatment of indigenous people isn't exactly stellar either.

And tarsands!

Yes, I know. That's a hell of a thing, and damned upsetting. We all have our sins and it does not look like they are going to stop it any time soon either.