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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
I can speak to my area in Southwestern Ontario near London/St.Thomas. In April we had record low unemployment rates (up a bit since then). We have also added in the past year or next few years:
Maple Leaf Foods that opened earlier this year that will hire 1600 people
Amazon DC opening that will hire 1000 people
Volkswagen battery place that the government paid billions of dollars for with all those jobs plus the offshoot.
So you either bring in people to work these jobs or the jobs they leave to take these jobs or you get into some kind of wage battle where these huge companies can in the short run pay a higher wage than small companies can afford so you put the smaller companies in a bind where they have to move to whereever, lose money or shut down.
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Didn’t that part of the country lose thousands of jobs when the auto plants shut down? You’d think there would be enough under-employed blue-collar labour to staff those operations.