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Originally posted by plett22@Sep 22 2004, 03:58 PM
Alberta (Canada, really) should look at bringing in labour from overseas on a temp basis. You can get workers for half the price, and when the shortage is solved send 'em home.
I've been through Asia and this is quite common. In Korea, if you have menial, low paying work for someone, you can get a license to bring in workers from India. It's pretty popular, and according to the government a win win for both sides. The import workers make money and gather skills that would never be available to them in their home country, and the employer has access to an unlimited labour supply (as well as saves money by paying lower wages).
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To be honest I think that would hurt Alberta in the long run.
We pay _____ people to come over to Calgary, and work on the Oil sands, but the people do not live hear. The people that Benifit are the companies that employ the cheap labourers, but when it comes to spending money back into the Economy - it would probably go back to the native country, thus the money is leaving Canada.
Sure the profit margin of said company would be higher, therefore we could tax em to death, but putting money in the hands of people that live here is better for the Economy. In the theory of Economics, most economists beleive that for every dollar a working class citizen spends it works through the economy 10-fold.
Since Oil is a limited resource it would be better to wait for more Canadian Labour.