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Originally Posted by iggy_oi
Raising the minimum wage to promote more consumer spending and increase business, apprentiship grants to help get people working, trying to get pipelines approved.(despite what most claim) And actually hiring people does count to some extent.
You may not agree with these as being the best solutions, which they may prove to not be, but to dismiss it as not doing anything or claiming they simply won't work based solely on your belief of this seems unconstructive.
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the raising minimum wage isn't increasing business, I don't know where that's coming from when you can see a lot of instances of businesses contracting because of it. Because of the increases in priced goods, plus the carbon tax they're not going to have significantly more disposable income to spend.
I like the grants for apprentices, that makes sense
trying to get pipelines approved, all that's happened is that Notley's gotten slapped in the face by Quebec and Ontario and BC after announcing things like the Carbon Tax.
And hiring more people increases the operating deficit and especially worthless if they aren't hiring front line people like doctors and nurses and teachers where the money should be going. Instead it looks like they're just hiring more bureaucrats which is a net deficit increase. It will be interesting to see how many people they jam in to run this carbon tax. On top of that it just makes the pensions more unaffordable under the current budget.
At this point the best thing that they could do is announce a hiring and wage freeze and let some attrition happen.