[#-3]

I don't see a lack of manufacturing being the long term down fall of Canadian Jobs.

Just my opinion, With Manufacturing jobs there are a few realities;

They are the easiest jobs to automate and replace with machines, so you constantly have to be striving to create new manufacturing jobs.

With half a percent of the worlds population, and probably about 10% of the worlds resources we don't need to worry about being a net exporter of resource, and a net importer of goods. The world will completely run out of resources before that becomes an issue for us.

A bit of a stereotype, but manufacturing jobs do not create desirable communities, they are too susceptible to booms and busts, Detroit and San Fran are good examples of this. In 2008 with all of its manufacturing jobs when Detroit went bust people left and it got worse, because those were car plants and nobody was coming in to take over those buildings and create new jobs. in 2000 with the tech bubble central Cali didn't fall apart, because the infrastructure failed companies left behind was useful to any company, so opportunists came in, filled the empty office space, and created new jobs.

To me, for us to remain among the "richest" countries in the world, a huge amount of focus needs to go into R&D in all areas. There is allot of money to be made in having Ideas, and it doesn't come at the long term costs you are worried about.

It does really worry me, that our government has shown any desire to support those who drive for positive change, that's where the great ideas come from. Canada seems vary comfortable with the world the way it is. We all need to understand that the world is and always will be changing, and the way to stay on top is by steering those changes (Designing the next windmill. Not building the last one.)