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Originally Posted by transplant99
One company?
Right now i can think of UPS, DHL, FedEx, Canpar etc.
Beyond that if there is a need for someone to fill and can make a profit at it....it will happen.
as for the rest of your post...what you are arguing is that the government should be in the business of providing jobs.
I fundamentally and entirely disagree with that to no end. If I want employees working for me, i will make that happen. I dont need a big government corporation being the conduit for such a thing.
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There are numerous shipping companies, but I'm concerned with the growing rate that large corporations are consolidating industries at. Recent examples would be things like sobey's buying Safeway, Loblaws buying shoppers drug mart, even Canada post taking over purolator. What is happening is that consumers are losing their buying power which keeps our costs down, so good for the economy, as well as employees are losing their bargaining power, which is bad for the economy.
As far as new companies starting up, do you really think it is possible for someone to up and start a new grocery store and truly compete with the buying power of these large corporations? Or to start up a shipping service to compete with these already established mega corporations and their workforce and delivery vehicles fleet?
As far as governments providing people jobs, I don't believe it is up to them to create jobs, however they do have to regulate the economy. They see this trend and they are aware of it's impact, however most politicians rely on corporate sponsors to get elected so they allow these giants to get away with this kind of thing. Ask yourself this, with the current unemployment rate in this province is there really a need for companies to continue using temporary foreign workers? Yet the government allows companies to do it, so they can save on things like pension, vacation increases and any liability of retaining an employee. The government does this while ignoring it's impact on things like housing/rental prices, as well as the strain it puts on the healthcare system.
The reason I mentioned the effects of industry automation(macdonalds) is that because yes I do feel the government needs to address this at some point. I have no idea what industry you work in, however I can almost guarantee you that it will eventually feel the impact of these things at some point. Look at it this way, an economy such as ours works by people putting money into it, not by big corporations making record profits. We need people making money, and then spending that money at other businesses so that the cycle of growth can continue.
If 100 people spend money at a business and that business is making gains, it will grow, that growth will create jobs through that's business's expansion, which will make it so more people can spend money at other businesses and then those businesses will grow and create jobs, more people will make money there and they will continue to put more money into the first business which will continue the cycle of growth.
If 100 people lose their income, they will not spend their money on goods and services, which will affect the retail industry, they will not buy/build a new home which will affect the construction and real estate industries. The workers in those industries then start to lose jobs, and the cycle goes backwards. This also puts a strain on CPP and EI, which isn't good for anyone.
So unless these big corporations are going to start subsidizing all these industries that their greed impacts, then something must be done.