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U. S. Outsourcing Millions Of Jobs

Posted on Thursday, October 20 at 11:00 by 4Canada
Some U.S. industries - from call centres to film production - have come to Canada. However, in a speech to a business forum organized by the Vancouver Airport Authority, Federal Industry Minister David Emerson said U.S. protectionism makes his blood run cold. "If investments are systematically and continuously biased toward the United States because of border risk, we've got some big, big problems in Canada." Yet much U.S. apprehension is a result of U.S. companies shipping U.S. jobs outside the country. Emerson's speech didn't touch on the fact that in an increasingly global economy, where corporations are able to subvert the rules we make to protect stable livelihoods for ordinary people, U.S. protectionism is just one element in the equation. http://www.thetyee.ca/News/2005/10/19/USOutsourcing/ [Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on October 20, 2005]

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  1. by RPW
    Sat Oct 22, 2005 3:59 pm
    <blockquote>...and our economic success depends greatly on our ability to trade internationally.</blockquote> Not necessarily. What we export are still mainly natural resources, the revenues from which are NOT distributed evenly throughout the general population. What we import has to be purchased by Canadians from the income we earn from jobs, by and large. To be economically viable, we need to emphasize job quality, not quantity. <p>---<br>RickW

  2. by boflaade
    Sat Oct 22, 2005 5:38 pm
    Capitalism, profit and protectionism. A monoply well endeared by the USA. Canada should at least show a little protectionism.

  3. by Anonymous
    Mon Oct 24, 2005 6:02 pm
    The sale of resources is not an income, but the squandering of capital. Therefore, no matter how the take is distributed, it is a loss and a liability, not a benefit. To account it as an income, or even as part of the GDP, is fraudulent accounting that leads to disaster and bankruptcy.

    In any case, we have no idea what the multinationals are getting for our resources, because they're dealing with their ideological brethren, or even with their own corporations under hundreds of other names, and far more may be going under the blanket to offshore tax havens.

    Ed Deak, Big Lake, BC.



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