[longsuffering]

I wasn't aware that he was such a supporter of the Oil Sands.



More here: http://blog.macleans.ca/2009/01/23/i...with-the-west/

and here: http://blog.macleans.ca/2009/01/23/we-deserve-better/

The unemployment rate for young Canadians is pushing 13 percent.

We don’t want a country where young people begin their working lives in the unemployment line.

And it’s not just those who can’t find work or who lose their jobs altogether.

At Canada’s largest steel company, Dofasco, thousands of employees were put on a two-week layoff over Christmas.

And as of January 1st, salaried employees are now working only four days a week.

How would any of us like to have started the New Year with a 20 percent pay cut?

It’s not just the workers in the blast furnace and the coke ovens, the recession is hurting every family in Hamilton.

It is hurting every family in Sudbury, The Soo, Windsor and Thunder Bay.

And the Canadians who work in the big bank towers here in downtown Toronto are just as uneasy.

That’s the truth.

This isn’t a central Canada recession. This is a Canadian recession.

The city in Canada that lost the most jobs last month was Calgary. Alberta is hurting, and when Alberta hurts, the whole country suffers.