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likewise. Free trade ought to be scrapped and Canada made subservient to the Uk parliament. Canada's parliament is good for nothing anyway.

and no longer recognize dual citizenship. If you want to be Canadian, be Canadian, if not get the eff out.

Sounds good. Yeah and the US kicked Canada to the Unemployment line by idling US steel in Hamilton. Britain is apart of the Eurozone.

It's very straight forward, number of qualifying hours in the 52 week window equals benefits. If you paid and you lost that job for reasons beyond you, you will get the money period. As for people paying into EI and not getting it, I challenge you to provide a specific example or scenario.

buddy, The conservatives stole 50 Billion out of EI. EI is more than well funded. This 50 Billion has been Mia for at least 7 years. Currently there is 800000 people collecting even at max it would last 3 years before being depleted. Not only has the 50 Billion stolen Canada owes EI 5% interest on that money for the seven years. That would work out to at 2.5 billion in interest. So add another 20 Billion to the 50 Billion. Canada owes EI, 70 Billion dollars. That would equal 4 years before this money is depleted. Of course not everyone is going to get the maximum EI payout. So this stolen money would likely translate into more like 6 years. It's the conservatives who did this to the economy. The only good conservative is unelected conservative.

Conservatives strike again with export development Canada. Export Development Canada is lending a scandavian airline the money to buy bombardier planes. What value other than token jobs is there to Canada? I believe It was W5 or fifth Estate who did a story on bombardier planes that were financed by export development Canada that no money was repaid and those planes are sitting by the hundreds in a dessert in Arizona. Why is the conservatives repeating this raping of Canadian taxpayers? Perhaps a new agency ought to be created "Domestic Development Canada" Where money is lent to whoever within Canada to buy bomdardier planes and high speed trains. At least when this money is never paid back, we the taxpayers know the money was used to build up the value of Canada instead of rotting in some dessert in the states. The only good conservative is an unelected conservative.

Or be done with the matter a capitulate to the Euro Zone. That will give Canada and Canadians access to Europe (Canada's heritage) and a market of 450 million people. Canada has tremendous resources to aid Europe particularly Natural Gas which they are being held hostage by Russia. What makes Canada think it's better than all the Countries who adopted the Euro over their currencies. Canada will benefit immensely by making this move.

If you think I am knocking the US I am not. I am knocking Canada and stating the obvious fact Canada's politicians and bureacrats haven't got what it takes to make Canada a prosperous Country. I am saying Canada can't compete with the US multi-dimensional, abstract economics. In case you haven't notice the US is distancing itself from Canada. They are not taking measures to align Canada with US initiatives. If Canada is just another Country to the US there is no point in Canada Hinging itself on what the US thinks or does any longer. Time to set the US adrift.

Care to elaborate? What's wrong don't like the cold reality of the Canada conundrum? You are probably a clueless communist conservative.

If we are going to be economically tied with the US than Canada has to have equal prices at the Retail level when it comes to gas, beer, and whatever else. Being paid less for equal work to Americans and paying higher prices for goods and services is not a success. Further more the US has raped the world by spending and pumping trillions of printed dollars into the market. How much of that has Canada done? Canada hasn't got what it takes to compete with the US. The US is not interested in Canada other than what it can take from Canada. If this is the state of Canada/Us relationship, Canada's only outlet is to capitulate to the Euro Zone. Canada had its chance to model it economics in parallel with the US but decided to be the donkey country it is and stagnate and choke Canada into a banana republic status Really, Can anyone think much of anything coming from someone with a handle bush-cheney. ahhh, bush, need I say more.

Once upon a time it was announce in the paper or bulletin boards show up at this place at this time for work. At the end of the day the person is paid. There are lots of work that the government could advertise this way to get done. Doing this would provide someone a source of income.

And the US is a winner? Really, what a joke. The US is a mockery to Capitalism and a cheat. What has been revealed about the US in this economic adjustment is they purposely flooded the world capital markets with there mortgage junk and defrauded world investors out of their money. China held one trillion in Government Treasuries which the US went to the printing press to repay. To continue the printing press assault to reduce they interest rate is essentially zero which more or less tells the world investors stick their investments up their ass. To stimulate the US economy billions was used to to prop up countless banks and the auto sector. With all these trillions and billions being thrown around we have the conservative stooges drawing a blank and doing nothing but waiting for the US to start importing Canada's resources and ontario manufactured goods fueled by low wage immigrant labour. This is the harper conservative recovery plan to wait for the US to start importing. For proof of that, money is being granted and loaned out by export development Canada. Welfare reallly, to companies looking for money and for whose benefit. The fact is Canada has resorted to communist style governance rather capital driven driven economics. The conservatives do not value people and they have no concept or understanding of World economics. Canada is operating Ass backwards. In a rising economy goverment debt is pushed out to the people and the world in in a move to take money out of the monetary system and put aside for impending global economic collapse. This money could be used to buy a basket of foreign currencies and precious metals. When the economic collapse has occured all goverment debt pushed out is paid backed with printed money and the money from the debt is used to reignite the economic engine. You can't help stupid. The conservatives are busy trying to sell government debt in a down economy. Who's got money to give to the government in a down economy? He haw, he haw. Canada has missed the boat. It hasn't got what it takes to be a winner when it's run by losers.

I am not sure what your ethnic heritage is or what your knowledge of US/Canada history is but it is what it is. One thing is for sure the US has and is keen on as it has in the past to exploit and take advantage of Canada wherever they can. Part of that was the aquisition of the Companies within Canada and controlling the employment. Canada is an easy target because Canada is being run by the conservative bafoons. Look no further than Stelco which became US steel to see what the conservatives accomplish. The fact is, Canada hasn't got what it takes to compete with the US. There is no further point in trying to compete with the US but it's time to capitulate to the European Union. All the countries of the European Union recognized they couldn't manage a currency and there respective economies so they signed onto the Euro Union for Stability. Canada is trying to compete with the US (300 million + pop), Euro Zone (450 million +), India (1 Billion +), China (1 Billion +), Japan (150 million +), Russia (200 million +), and Canada? 30 million, Can't do it. Canada's only direction is to continue to dump immigrants onto Canada and to exploit Canada's people and export Canada's resources at a lower cost to the world than being sold to Canadians. More exploitation. That is not a recipe for success but a revalation of corrupt Governance. Canada has never achieved independence through any process and is still under the ownership of the British monarch. To end Canada's squabbling once and for all it's time Canada be moved under the Umbrella of the Euro Zone. As was done with the 1982 Constitution so it can be done unilaterally without Canada's input be moved under the Euro Zone. What has changed that Canada deserves a voice to its future? Canada had an opportunity to embrace democracy and good governance with the 1982 Constitution but chose the path of cultural dilution and exploitive repressive governance. This corruption stems from actions by both the Mulroney and harper conservatives alike.

If paying higher Retail Costs than the US for everything from Food, Gasoline, and entertainment to being paid less for equal work to the US all the while paying a federal Sales tax which the US does not have and burdened with other repressive taxes is smallc idea of success I would like to know what his definition of failure is. Proof is in the state of Canada. Canada is not a leading economy but a lagging economy. Canada is a clueless wonder being led by the clueless Conservatives whose only interest is to ensure their buddies get the senate appointments and top cushy bureacratic jobs to enrich them as much as they can. The best thing Canada can do is fire the Conservatives before they wreck Canada anymore than they already have.

Where do you live? What a line of BS. Canada is nothing but a nation of losers and a parasite on the world stage. Canada Contributes nothing to the world other than being an exploitive whore serving a narrow minority. That narrow minority is the Government Tit suckers who derive their income from the tax revenues wherever they may come from. To fuel this greed for tax revenue Canada rolls in an ever increasing amount of immigrants further diluting whatever Canada use to be all the while not spending on the infrasture required to sustain this added burden by the immigrants they dump onto Canada. Canada's natural resources are being shipped to the rest of the rest of world for their benefit and not to the benefit of the Canadian people, particularly oil and natural gas. Canadians pay 25 to 40 % more for Gasoline at the pump than the Americans yet we pull out more oil out the ground than Canadians Consume. The media likess to make Canada appear cool to the rest the world in movies and other areas how Canadians love their beer, yet in Ontario a particular brand of beeri is 45 dollars and in the US its a $11.50. All Canada is a flow through to serve the world. Canada has been made a lifeless loser by the Conservatives and the Media. Is Canada an orderly and Good Country? Far from it. It's a small minded corrupt country that hasn't got what it takes to be winner and stand on its own two feet and contribute to the world in the way of intellectual advancement. Canada has become a sell out of its resources and its people to the world. Driving up retail costs in comparison to the US and repressive wages by allowing employers to draw on a continous supply of immigrants. This is done to help Canada's foreign nationals use Canada to export products to the US and not better serve the lives of Canadians. If that does not meet the defintion of whore what does. Canada is nothing but leach a sucking country that deserves a severe beating on the world stage for its Attitude to prosperity and the treatment of its people. When I say treatment: I mean in Comparison to the US, Britain, France, Australia, New Zealand and any other Country that is deemed Canada's origins.

This thread makes no sense. We vote in people who happen to be in a party. If the person elected does not get along with his party, the only thing the party can do is kick him out of that party. That person would still represent that region as an independent and he would still be able to rant against the corrupt harper conservatives. If a party did in fact have the power the fire someone from representing a region the person was "elected" to by the people, Canada would in fact be a Communist Country. However, Canada is a reminent of a Constitutional Monarchy. Canada still has the Governor Generals and left-tenant generals who is appointed by the Queens office. 2010 the Queen is supposedly Coming to Canada for a visit. A party cannot fire a person from representing an area he/she was elected to but the party can fire the person out of the party and make that person an independent at the cost of weakening Harpers's corrupt minority. What is Fact: The way Canada is structured is the Queen, Via the Governor Generals can fire the party (the Conservatives) from running the Country and have the official opposition form the Government if she feels it in her interests and the interests of Canada. The Communist Harper Conservatives should stop preaching their corrupt brainwashing principles. Their shite is not flying.

How does the government know if you are actively looking for work or not? The Unemployment stats is a sham. According to the papers 800 hundred thousand are collecting and the rate of unemployment is 8.4 %. Canada only has 10 million people working? What a crock of shit that stat is. Similarily in the US, 6 million people are collecting Employment Insurance and their unemployment rate is supposedly 9%. Really, so the US only employs 70 million people. Holy batman, perhaps this is a conspiracy of the governments and media to intentionally depress the spirits of the people. I already know how corrupt Canada is and when I say corrupt I point my finger at the people. In life one has to correlate their life experience with the lay of the land. I know I have taken it on the chin in every economic downturn since 1992. I have chronically been afflicted and abused by the employment market. For these reasons I have sought out to understand the underpinnings of life rather than focus on building skills and abilities. Not my fault really, it's because of the character of you people. I regret my life in Canada and I regret I am being held hostage by the corrupt. What can I do but lick my wounds and continue to take measures to baricade and insulate myself from the human trash I am among. Not much of a life really but I know from my analysis of life you people have no basis to deserve or will get anything more than what you are at this moment. Enjoy your fleeting vain lives. In case I never have a chance to tell each and every person good bye and good ridance I do so, now.

Yes it can be because the money goes directly into the General Revenues of the Government

So what's are you saying? Bring all the educated chinese and East Indian people to pursue all the meaningful jobs? Bringing in Foreigners to drive Canada's inovation only shows how lost Canada really is. Canada is nothing but a blight to the world who has embraced globalization to the point of being a world whore. Canada's labour market is a predatory exploitative market. Our politicians have the ability to strengthen Canada's work force but the Conservatives have chosen to sell Canadians out. In principal I support Unions because a Union is able to negotiate a fair deal for your efforts. However, I have experienced Corruption to the highest level from the Union. I was in a Union that would not file a grievance to stop my employment from being harassed because of this my treatment fell below all the applicable labour laws. I was powerless to stop this abuse so I was forced to leave the employment. My experience has shown the Union bureacracies to be power mongering corrupt entitu who are only interested in the dues coming from the members pay cheque. If they have to sell you out to keep them coming they will. I know first hand how corrupt Canada is. Don't for a minute think our politicians can't do right by everyone, because they can but they have chosen to create Canada in the Conservatives Ugly image: A nation of exploitation and selfish greed whores.

Unemployed is Unemployed. If there is an able person between 18 and 65 and revenue Canada has no record of this person paying EI and other payroll deductions and is not registered as part of a business then that person has to be included in the umemployment statistic and documented. All the conservatives are doing is lying to the Canadian people as to what the true unemployment is. What this show is is Stats Can is nothing more than a propoganda spinster for the conservatives.

It is a tax and not an insurance plan. It's a tax because the money paid into it is no where to be found but in the pockets of the Conservatives' buddies.

34 million minus 13 million equals 21 million. 8.6 percent of 21 million equals 1.8 million. Where's the other 1 million people counted in the Unemployed Stats. Is there 1 million people on welfare, homeless or in shelters? of these 21 million, how many is paying into EI? If they are not paying their share of EI tax, whynot?

The Latest number of people collecting EI is 778,000 for an unemployment rate of 8.6%. If that represents the actual percentage of people out of 34 million people working Canada is in Deep Deep Trouble. That stat shows a working population of only 9 million. Only 25% of the people in Canada work? What is up with That? Had the Conservatives not plundered and raped 50 Billion from the EI that 50 Billion would last at least 160 weeks at Canada's current collection rate, 3 Years!!!!! I heard a stat of something like 16 million people work in Canada. So how is it that 7 million people are not paying into EI. Are these people on Welfare, How are they not paying their share into EI? Mathematically 778000 out of 16 million people is a smaller percentage of unemployed. The problem with unemployment is once you exhaust your benefits you are no longer counted in the unemployment statistic. That could explain the difference between 16 million and 9 million counted as the work force. The Conservatives better start being Honest about Canada's true unemployment and start taking steps to liberate people to making money and contributing to making Canada a better Country. Ten years ago in Ontario 1 in 10 jobs were through an employment Agency. Today 1 in 3 jobs in Ontario are through an employment Agency. What are the Conservatives doing about that? What the Conservative are doing is pandering to these Corrupt employers in Ontario and allowing them to bring in Foreign Workers because these Companies are unwilling to invest in Canadians and or pay them. A Conservative Government is a corrupt government. Look no further than mulroney, need I say more? How is it that he got away with receiving envelopes of Cash and not being brought up on Tax evasion at the very least? Mulroney is lucky he is not in the US, he would be joining Conrad Black. Not only are Conservative a blunder they are mostly made up of politicians from Ontario. Look at what these politicians did to Ontario before setting their sites on Canada. Do not trust, do not waste any more votes on the Conservatives.

Alright mosquito, I will give you a swat. Oh Higher Minimum Wage equals higher food and clothing costs. Which is good so the tit sucking government crats suck more income tax from those higher wages and get more Sales taxes from the purchases. Clever Tax increase and you thought the government was doing the economy a favor. Advantage? Who pays for health care? OUr tax structure is out of Control and puts individuals and businesses at a disadvantage to Americans. The fact is all canadian doctors do is prescribe drugs and you would be hard pressed to get them to do anything else. We don't have prescription benefits so if you don't have a drug plan that will set Canadians back a fair penny. In the states if you don't have health insurance you can see a doctor at Walgreens for $69.00 US and he will prescribe the drugs and bobs your uncle.. In Ontario your Health preminum starts at $300 dollars on your income tax. That's enough for 4 doctor visits. How many times do you need to go to the doctor? Americans without Health Insurance could opt to throw that $300 dollars they are not being raped of in emergency coverage with High deductable of about $10000. At some point people have to realize their health is product of your making. The fact is, Health care is a black hole and can suck every cent out of the economy. I know our health care system and I am not that impressed with it. No this is the track record of the Conservative party. Actually Yes, The banks toxic debt was off loaded by the Harper Conservative. Name one Country in the World that allows someone to get off a plane, find a job, gets the right to vote from day one, and is able to buy a house and qualify for a mortgage??' That Country is Canada. These immigrants have a fall back if things don't work out they skip town and default on their mortgages and other debt they accumulated. This is and was the Harper conservative red carpet treatment to newcommers to Canada and when the economy tanked the conservatives obviously had to bail the banks out. The conservatives do not represent Canada and they are a blight that should have died with Joe Clark.

Conservative are you? Ok, pinochio when the US people regroups and has a hard look at the world you can be sure they will be eyeing Canada very very closely. Canada is and has always been a festering rash on the world. Canada has never earned its spot at the table and has resorted to underhanded repressive economics to create a government bureacratic entitlement machine. Canada's bureaucratic and political trash get away with ramming it up the Canadians rear because Canada is polarized and fragmented. To preserve power they continue to dump on Canadians to preserve and fuel their vanity. Be sure the noose is tightening and when the dust settles Canada will get what it deserves.