This is from Andrew Nikiforuk and a vital piece of information that the NDP should note and communicate effectively to the public: For the record, the oil industry is not a jobs machine. It is the worlds most capital-intensive industry and earns more than 10 per cent of the worlds GDP. But it only employs less than one tenth of one per cent of the worlds workers. In Canada it accounts for but 1.8 per cent of the workforce. In the comment below see the graph hidden in the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain expansion application re permanent jobs = less than 100. Well, the answer for the NDP is this: the oil sector could supply more jobs if all refining was done in Canada. As for environment restoration, clean up can also be a money maker and job maker. Black must be counter balanced with green pound for pound.
Posted on: Sat, 08 Mar 2014 02:20:05 +0000
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