Friday, January 31, 2014

 A CTV article says Keystone pipleline will support China?

http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/pmo-says-anti-keystone-ad-featuring-harper-distorts-the-facts-1.1659539#commentsForm-479100


Benefits China how I wonder?  The pipeline isn't likely to send China more oil because it is loaded in the Gulf of Mexico.  No,this about return on investment.  Canada has approved investments from all around the world, including China, US, UK, Eurozone, and even Russia.  There are very strict rules in place on foreign ownership, for valid reasons.   The scare mongering that foreign workers will be imported to Canada because China owns a piece of the action in the oil sands, is silly.  Immigration laws also very tough, prohibit some mass importation of Chinese labour.  The key issue with Oil Sands labour is does and will Canada have enough skilled people to do the job?  Currently, we may--although there is a critical shortage looming.   More serious is the population rate in Canada, since it is now not even self-sustaining, we will need to allow foreign immigration.  There is no question, if the boomers want to enjoy retirement, we must have Doctors and Nurses and Physiotherapists, and Engineers and Architects hold up our CPP because we are not raising enough Canadians to fill the looming void.  Most Canadians don't appreciate what a serious this problem is.  Canada must cherry-pick the best, brightest minds from around the world.  At least the current shift in Immigration policy allows for an already skilled worker to stand in a place that would take us 25 years to grow on our own.  The ethical question is really about how we steal the best and are a big part of the Brain Drain of the 3rd world.  For that we ought to be ashamed of ourselves.  However Canada is a pragmatic nation where we have the "anything it works" world view.  Continued expansion of the oilsands project will inevitably need the importation of outside workers: But we have the right to say who comes in when they come in and where they come in. Still in Canada today, we have highly skilled "Drs. and Physio therapists driving taxi-cabs", and scrubbing our toilets, and flipping our burgers as they wait for us to allow them to do what they are already trained to do.  Some have despaired of that. Some now expect the rest of their life no matter how skilled they are, to be a life of drudgery. Some are thankful to work these jobs no one wants, because they get to live in Canada.  After many years of indentured servitude we might even let them be Canadian citizens.

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