Alberta, Canada- The Promise Land For Jobs!!!

[Troyboy1971]

Alberta, Canada experiencing economic boom, needs unskilled workers


24 July 2006

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The Canadian province of Alberta is experiencing some of the strongest economic growth in all of Canada. Canada in general is one of the prime western nations for immigrants seeking relocation and work permits, and the government attributes the strong, steady economic outlook of Canada to the diversity of its migrant population.

Many jobs are going unfilled in Alberta, and the province is looking hard to match up foreign-born workers with vacancies. Recent analysis by financial institutions place Alberta as one of the top locations in Canada's economic boom. While the growth is about to experience a slight planned and expected slowing during 2007 and 2008, Canada will continue to grow at a pace faster than its neighbour, the United States during 2007 and beyond.

Driven largely by the oil and gas reserves of Alberta, the lowest unemployment rates in over 20 years are being experienced. The service sectors are positioned to require many more workers than can be provided locally, with unemployment already at 3.9%.

Workers from all of Canada are migrating to the work boom in Alberta, but more from the international community are still needed. At least 233,000 job vacancies went unfilled during 2005. By 2014, it is projected that 100,000 more jobs will be created than there will be people in Alberta to take.

Given this, local government and businesses are making requests to the federal government to make provisions in Canadian visa law to let in semi-skilled and non-skilled workers to fill the gap. Canada already offers some of the most generous immigrant options in the world, and has recently taken steps to make the country even more attractive toward students. Among recent initiatives, students may now obtain work permits so they may work while at school and pay for their schooling. Permanent residency fees were slashed by 50% a bare two months ago.

Job growth is expected to continue at approximately 5% throughout 2006, while wages across Canada are increasing at approximately twice the rate of inflation, with Alberta leading in this statistic. The service sector (hotels and restaurants, for example) is reporting that business is being inhibited by lack of labour. Infrastructure in general (pipelines, roads, refineries, etc.) is also not being completed at required rates.

Average weekly income is growing at more than four times the pace of only three years ago, due to nearly zero slack in the availability of new workers. Skill shortages remain prevalent, while the province attracts workers largely from Saskatchewan and Ontario. Worker in-flows are inadequate to meet this need, and international labour pools face Canadian immigration targets currently set too low to compensate fully.

It is expected that Alberta will remain the leader in growth of the western provinces for several years, with other provinces competing for second place.


http://www.workpermit.com/news/2006_07_24/canada/alberta_unskilled_workers.htm

[Troyboy1971]

Come on you Russkies! Hop on a plane and haul your arse out here!!!

[Troyboy1971]

Alberta Unemployment Rate in October: 3.0%- Average Hourly Wage: $25.60 

By Theophilos Argitis

Nov. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Canadian employers added more than three times as many jobs as expected in October and the jobless rate unexpectedly fell, reflecting gains in oil-rich Alberta.

Employment rose by 50,500 jobs, the largest gain since May, Statistics Canada said today in Ottawa, lowering the unemployment rate to 6.2 percent from 6.4 percent in September. Average hourly wages rose 3.1 percent from a year earlier. Today's figures point to a buoyant economy that may pose a risk of faster inflation, making it less likely the Bank of Canada will cut borrowing costs. Central bankers have kept the main lending rate on hold since raising it to 4.25 percent in May, the last of seven consecutive increases. The central bank last month said its core inflation rate, which it uses to gauge price trends, jumped to the highest in more than three years.

The employment increase is ``consistent with the fact that economic growth is proceeding in Canada,'' Carolyn Kwan, senior financial markets economist, said before the announcement. Employers added 67,600 full-time jobs, while shedding 17,100 part- time positions.

Economists surveyed by Bloomberg News expected a gain of 15,000 jobs and a 6.4 percent jobless rate.

Canada's unemployment rate was at a three-decade low of 6.1 percent in May and June before rising in July. The country continues to benefit from high consumer spending and foreign demand for energy products such as crude oil from the western province of Alberta.

Alberta's energy-driven economy has led job gains, adding 22,600 last month and 102,300 since December, bringing unemployment in the province to a three-decade low of 3 percent. Wages in Alberta grew at an annual pace of 5.6 percent.

Ontario Losses

Employment strength varies across the country. Ontario, which has nearly four times Alberta's population and is Canada's manufacturing heartland, shed 1,800 jobs.

Overall, factories cut 15,200 workers from their payrolls in October, while the construction industry increased employment by 20,700 and natural resource companies added 8,100 jobs.

Canada has relied on job gains, rising housing prices and the oil boom to keep households spending and to offset the impact of higher interest rates and a strong currency. The dollar, which traded at 88.25 U.S. cents late yesterday, reached 91.44 U.S. cents on May 31, the highest since Jan. 4, 1978.

The central bank said Oct. 20 that its annual core inflation rate, which excludes volatile items such as fruit and gasoline as well as the impact of tax changes, was 2.3 percent in September. That's faster than policy makers' average estimates for the next nine months. Central bankers set interest rates to keep inflation at or near 2 percent.

The central bank, which says the economy will grow above capacity until mid-2007, has one more rate decision this year, scheduled for Dec. 5.

 http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=aM0FyqbbnS9o&refer=canada

[SANDRO43]

Come on you Russkies! Hop on a plane and haul your arse out here!!!

You should convince Rvrwind to repatriate and bring along his Tver harem. Weather-wise, it should not be too different .

[Troyboy1971]

SANDRO43:

Where I live in Alberta, idiot Canucks are quitting jobs that pay at least $17.00/hour. I'm sick of this. We need hard working people who what to contribute to our economy.

To hell with these idiot Canucks. I want to see hard working people in this province be successful. Unfortunately it's not Canadians that pursue this these days.

[Albert]

WTF is this thread doing here??

[catzenmouse]

While I may not be a "born and bred" Albertan, I did live there for 5 years in the '80 and I saw the same thing happening with jobs. The oil and gas fields were paying enough that people were quiting good paying jobs to go off and be a cook/etc. to make twice as much. One problem that they did no think about was the "nothing to do" for six months and they often gambled away what they earned ending up with the same that they would have had working their normal job in Calgary. Silly humans....

Ken

[Rvrwind]

You should convince Rvrwind to repatriate and bring along his Tver harem. Weather-wise, it should not be too different .

Yeah, like thats gonna happen
The one thing they fail to mention along with all those high wages is the high taxes & high cost of living. Easy to make things look rosey when you leave out half the facts. Housing in Alberta is totally out of control price wise dang near as bad in Calgary as in Moscow. So things ain't all so black & white when you look at the underbelly.
And most of those immigration laws they slackened for immigrants to come to Canada, well lets just say chances of your nieghbour being white & speaking English are close to none. And if that sounds racist TFB. I tire quickly of dealing with Government agencies that employ people who can barely talk English. I also am tired of lowering the employment standards in some industries to emply people whose skills are not good enough for the job that I had to pass testing of more riggid standards, its called "affirmitive action". Yep, their not smart enough to make the cut so we'll lower our standrds to make sure they can, Duh, thats the way to get quality people alright & make the workplace safe for everybody.
Thanks, but no thanks, I'll stay right where I am.
If they would slacken the rules for the FSU & get some real decent inttelligent & educated folks coming in, well now that would make sense to me. But as long as they only slacken the rules for the third world countries, I see no benifit for Canada in that. Just more drain on the Social system & more money out of the pockets of the real Canadians that built a once great nation.
I could go on but I'm sure you get the picture!

[SANDRO43]

Where I live in Alberta, idiot Canucks are quitting jobs that pay at least $17.00/hour. I'm sick of this. We need hard working people who what to contribute to our economy.

That reminds me of a story from 30+ years ago. My former father-in-law was responsible for production and design in a very small company producing rubber boats (Zodiac-type dinghies). The owner got wind of the fact that the Canadian government was offering all sorts of incentives to foreign, labour-intensive manufacturers in order to reduce unemployment, so he shut down the Italian operation and moved over to Quebec, somewhere on the St. Lawrence IIRC. He moved back hurriedly to Italy after little more than a year because he could not get a stable work staff : people referred to them by the unemployment office would join for a week or so, then quit saying "I'm better off staying at home on my unemployment cheque".

The fact that my FIL had been a paratrooper sergeant in WWII also contributed to their somewhat strained labour relations .

[Rvrwind]

The worst thing they ever did was invent welfare & unemployment insurance!
With so many jobs it shouldn't be needed by anyone & half the people or more that are collecting it in MHO are not even real Canadians, but more recent immigrants. Get rid of the social programs & watch how fast they take any job they can get there friggin' hands on.
Either that or starve to death.
Either way not something I care to return to in its present state.
Had we had people in power with some gonads instead of a bunch of pussy whipped pork barrel bottom feeders we might still have a real country. Eastern Canada kept the bleeding heart Liberals in power for more years than I care to remember & that is why the entire country accept Alberta, the only loyally Conservative province, is going into the crapper. And now those same fools who destroyed the east are moving to the west so they can finish the job, lovely, just bloody lovely. I'm glad I'm not there, I'd be makin' a whole lot of enemies!!!
I ain't much for sympithizing with idiots!!

[Troyboy1971]

Yeah, like thats gonna happen
The one thing they fail to mention along with all those high wages is the high taxes & high cost of living. Easy to make things look rosey when you leave out half the facts. Housing in Alberta is totally out of control price wise dang near as bad in Calgary as in Moscow. So things ain't all so black & white when you look at the underbelly.
And most of those immigration laws they slackened for immigrants to come to Canada, well lets just say chances of your nieghbour being white & speaking English are close to none. And if that sounds racist TFB. I tire quickly of dealing with Government agencies that employ people who can barely talk English. I also am tired of lowering the employment standards in some industries to emply people whose skills are not good enough for the job that I had to pass testing of more riggid standards, its called "affirmitive action". Yep, their not smart enough to make the cut so we'll lower our standrds to make sure they can, Duh, thats the way to get quality people alright & make the workplace safe for everybody.
Thanks, but no thanks, I'll stay right where I am.
If they would slacken the rules for the FSU & get some real decent inttelligent & educated folks coming in, well now that would make sense to me. But as long as they only slacken the rules for the third world countries, I see no benifit for Canada in that. Just more drain on the Social system & more money out of the pockets of the real Canadians that built a once great nation.
I could go on but I'm sure you get the picture!

Well they losened it so any highschool graduate can work out here. Lots of Brits are moving out here, but basically anybody from any country that email's an employer, gets the same chances now to get the job as the Canuck does.

Don't forget Alberta's labour laws state that the foreign worker must get the exact same wage that was offered to the Canadian.

Housing is out of wack in Calgary and Edmonton (Fort McMurray is ridiculous), I agree, but not in Medicine Hat or Lethbridge. Their housing costs are much lower now than what you see in Ontario.

[Donhollio]

  Rvr

 Now that is my kind of guy !    I feel the same about stupid Quebec and all the political BS I have to listen to everyday, Whatever it takes to kiss the Quebeckers asses !
 Also Albertas destroying thier province by pumpin water out of their aquafers to get the oil out of the ground ,as well as useing it to process the oilsands.
 That being said, I tried to get a job working in the patch. I called big companies and they just said they have a high apllication rate. Oh , I though tyou were hurting for workers ?
 So finally I was directed to the Union in Edmonton for the pipefitters and plumber union. She told me because I'm not a journeyman (1 level shy) that I can apply as a 1st year apprentice,and start my apprenticeship over ?????????????  Uh yeah sign me up 

  So I'd make better money there now as a labour, yet my uncle (lives there) told that he knows of a German crew who work 5 weeks on ,than fly home for a few weeks.

[Rvrwind]

Don't get me started on unions!!! Anothr blight on society & a waste of flesh. Great for people who want to make big money & not have to work for it
Donhollio
Just pretend you speak little English & apply for the affirmitive action program & your a shooin!!! No fuss, no muss, right to the front of the line!!!

[Donhollio]

Yeah thats'a plan,after all they may as well hire them based on thier skin color than what skills they have   That burns my ass !  Our country is going to crap,with all the bending over certain people making all the laws. Always trying to please the little guy,thinking he was being over looked for every job. It's BS, You loopk at any airport ,there no a white guy doing any jobs. You tell me where it's fair ?

[Rvrwind]

Now you are starting to understand why I live in Russia!!!
At least here if you want to succeed you just get after it & everybody else has to play by the same rules. So the best man wins. In Canada they give unfair advantage to anybody who isn't white, yep, democracy at its finest. Sheeesh!!!

[ScottinCrimea]

I don't even want to talk about my experiences with affirmative action getting into medical school or finding a scholarship that I qualified for once I was there.  It seems the white anglo saxon protestant male is the only minority for which discrimination is not only allowed, it's encouraged.  My ancestors didn't own any slaves, in fact they fought on the side of the North in the Civil War to free them (I'm in Texas now so don't spread that around too much).
     I guess if I had been smarter, I would have claimed status as an African American since one of my ancestors emigrated to the US from South Africa..

[groovlstk]

Many years ago when I was applying for admission to college, one of my female friends had an amazing rate of success in being accepted at schools that should have been well above her. She confided in me that she wrote on her applications that she was 1/4 Cherokee. No one ever challenged her on it, and she went on to a prestigious school in Boston that otherwise would have made a paper airplane out of her application.

[Troyboy1971]

Well boys, my partner (an Immigration counsellor for the CISC) and I just got 25 Poles a job and their work visas to work at Connect Logistics. A warehouse in Alberta that distrubutes liquor across the province. All are unskilled labour jobs. Apparently, they have a shortage of liquor supply at the stores out here.

The Poles start work in late January. 

[Donhollio]

Here's another rant. In 94 when I PAID my way through college while most other in the class of 18 were UI sponsered. Of the 18, only 5 of us passed,none were on UI.  There was the token minority (I'm sure the gov't saved a seat to convince some minority to try it)
 Turns out he was a Indian,now in this course we were told if we missed more than 2 days we needed a Dr. note. Miss a week and we were out.
 So anyways this guy disappears for 2 weeks ,figuring he's dropped out. No, he comes back and there giving him all the tests he missed. I asked him where he went ,if he was sick. "I wus huntin"  Oh how nice. He of course dropped out,I'm sure he felt alittle bit on the outside after this happened 3 times.
 It's time our government get off thier lazy asses,and makes people move where the work is. I realise it's not easy to uproot yourself,but cutting fish for 5 weeks in Newfieland and collecting UI for the 47 other weeks ,is pathetic.
 I often say to people who resist change,because they say "  it's all I have ever done" 
What do you think the blacksmiths said when the rubber tire and car, started to over take their way of life ?
    Did they all become ,frail little whiners ,or simply adapted to something else. Hmmm, no UI back than,better move on to something else

[Bruno]

Many years ago when I was applying for admission to college, one of my female friends had an amazing rate of success in being accepted at schools that should have been well above her. She confided in me that she wrote on her applications that she was 1/4 Cherokee. No one ever challenged her on it, and she went on to a prestigious school in Boston that otherwise would have made a paper airplane out of her application.

Very similar to what they call "positive discrimination" in my country :

- Foreign have priority on social housing ( i have wait 8 year for a social house... once married with a Russian woman, i have receive it in 3 month... i have always pay, give the caution... but once separated, she have receive it... now, i am again on the waiting list... 3 year waiting now... delay for national is only around 10 year... )
- Industry are obligate to take worker/employee in the proportion of the local foreign population
- Some jobs for state are only publish in local paper in Turkish or Arab
- Foreign people have reduction on several thing like electricity, bus, medical care, etc...
- Foreign can make job test in own language... but if you are a French speaking Belgium man who make a job test in Flanders, you are obligate to make it in Dutch.
- Foreign receive money, plane ticket, housing and job if they choose to return in home country
- etc ...

I am against discrimination, i am for the same right for everybody... the "positive discrimination" is a way for state to give more right to foreign people that to local citizen...

Same system at the industry level... foreign industry have lower tax that local one!!!

[Rvrwind]

It seems the white anglo saxon protestant male is the only minority for which discrimination is not only allowed, it's encouraged.

I can attest to that!!!
Back in I think it was '82' maybe '83' can't recall off the top at the moment. Anyway I sued the Northwest Territorial Government for discrimination & lost I might add.
I was living in Calgary at the time & the NWT gov offerred me a job in the NWT, a good job making good money, so I decided to accept. I sold my home, my car, my truck, my bike & uprooted my family & moved to the remote North. A little Hamlet on the shores of Hudson's Bay called Eskimo Point.
Things went great for about a year, then all of a sudden I get my walking papers. Seems the job description had changed to a 'Native Only Position". I went ballistic. Try putting in your ad or job description for employees "White Only Position" & see how fast & how hard they come down on you!!!
Well I'm a fighter & I had uprooted my whole life to take this job & I expected to be there a lot longer than one year, so I sued to try & keep my job. Anyway, to make a long story short, I lost. According to the judge it is "impossible to discriminate against a white man" Duh!!! What a bunch of crud.
That was the beginning of the end for my patriotism for my country. Incidents after that just enforced the realization that Canada was going to Hell in a hand basket & the lunatics were running the asylum!!!
This is true & still on the books in the NWT, if you should doubt my story. In fact it was considered a landmark case as it was the first time a white man had the gonads to fight the Territorial system that was leaning more & more towards native Eskimo's & Indians!!
I figure the same rules should apply for everybody & if somebody can't play buy those rules or pass the same test as everybody else TFB!!!!!

[Donhollio]

  the realization that Canada was going to Hell in a hand basket & the lunatics were running the asylum!!!

  Thats how I see our country going too. BTW isn't it a hen basket ?