RE:RE:RE:RE:US/Canada Union - similar to EU
ChrisM5527 wrote: 859, Just a few memories of "back then". When I was a teen, I worked a summer in Orillia at a office furnature manufacturer. GM had a work van plant in Scarborough. American Motors/Chrysler had 2 assembly plants in Brampton. All pre-Free Trade Agreement.
I get that globalization has given us $50 DVD players, but at what cost? We now have a minimalistic manufacturing capability and a service industry (Tim's) in comparison.
And it didn't stop there (with the exportation of factory jobs), the automotive company that I worked for the longest over the years now outsources engineering to China and India. After Canadians taught them the basics. Really pathetic.
And lastly, not even the Americans have been spared - there is no way Boeing would be in the mess they are in if it wasn't for offshoring engineering.
Another 2 cents...
great story ...I will tell you one from a year ago . I was planing a tear-down and new real estate project . When asking the local architect to see if I could get a quick rendering of the futur project , he suggested I get it done online with "UPWORK" ... an online company in San Francisco with workers working from home in Bangladesh.. they did the project for next to nothing , how can we compete with this ? ... out-sourcing is everywhere and we can't fight it , it's too costly ... we have to work together with the US but we have to stand our ground and maybe suffer a little at the begining but it can be done ..the orangutan focusing on us now because he has no choice , the rest of the world isn't scared of him ... he thinks ther are but that's not the case .. this too shall pass ...GLTA