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Originally Posted by Dion
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Shouldn't they be thankful that, according to everyone, the NDP is keeping the oil and gas industry in the crapper? If not for their vigilance in preventing a potential boom, this owner would have been forced to close his doors sooner because when all the other businesses raise their wages to compete and retain employees, his poor business model that only thrives when he can pay his employees a wage that keeps them in poverty would prove to be a failure.
In all seriousness, these stories are unfortunate for the owners but really, how successful can a business be with such small profit margins? People are very quick to say businesses aren't required to keep people employed, but in these cases those same people will cry foul rather than say consumers and governments aren't required to keep poorly run businesses in business.
Edit: Anyone else see the irony at the end of his rant about how lousy the government's plan for keeping workers out of poverty is? Where he says the government should be the ones fixing it? This is how they are addressing it, by taking away the ability for companies to keep their workers poor. This may reduce jobs in the short term if some poorly run businesses shut down, but the better run ones should gain the consumer dollars from those that are lost, which should in turn lead to growth for those companies and the creation of GOOD jobs