Saturday, November 11, 2023

Chronicles of Twatrick.

 


Actually, you're all debt. But I see the point you were trying to make.

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3 comments:

MgS said...

Patrick - and his UCP-following buddies - continue to play the “but the NDP caused huge job losses in 2015” card.

This is false - and it’s demonstrably false. Alberta’s oil patch has been through numerous downturns due to collapses in the price of oil, and every time, the oil patch lays off thousands and thousands of workers.

In the last 30 years, they have hired ever dwindling numbers back as the downturn ends because automation continues apace to replace jobs. (And yes, Suncor eliminating heavy haul mine truck drivers is straight up automation eliminating another job)

If government policy had such a huge influence on oil patch jobs, then Kenney’s 2019 “job creation” tax cut should have created a measurable uptick in jobs. Instead, net oil patch employment declined, and several companies chose to move their head offices out of Alberta.

9:41 AM
CC said...

MgS: Patrick is, hands down, one of the most dishonest debaters on social media. If memory serves, his relentless lying about *me* had consequences.

I'll just leave it at that.

9:49 AM
Purple library guy said...

To be fair, while government policy doesn't USUALLY have a big impact on jobs, it IS possible for a government to have that kind of influence, on both the up side and the down side. On the up side, there's strong Keynesian direct job creation and sometimes big industrial policy investments. On the down side . . . well for instance, if a government were to actually do something insane like BAN new development in the fastest growing sector of the economy, that would obviously have an impact on jobs.

Oh wait, that's what Danielle Smith did with renewable energy.

1:29 PM

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