To the Editor:
To the Four Factors of Production - Land, Labour, Capital and Management - Government must now be added as a Fifth.
The utilization of land resources, the investment of capital, the employment of labour by management aiming to maximize profits through imports and hiring of foreign labour are supported by the current Federal Government as responding to globalization.
The current temporary workers are replacing Canadians. In time these positions, by my reading, will be offshored completely "After being trained, most of the new workers will leave Canada within about three months," though Hirji couldn't confirm where in the world they will be working. This loss of employment to Canadians adds to the uncounted thousands already displaced.
Technological advan-ces are enabling corporations to replace Canadian workers - not because they are unavailable and not on a temporary but permanent basis.
This, together with the export of manufacturing employment, benefits the corporation owners and management with higher profits and incomes.
This question has not been addressed: The point will be reached, through the export of manufacturing and service positions, where lack of earned income reduces the capacity of labour income funded consumption to the point of necessitating increased dependency on government. On government unprepared to tax corporation profits, the sole remaining source of income.
Oh, the questions. Is the statement above accurate? Have studies been undertaken as to when the point will be reached and the options open both then and now to a Canada where both manufacturing and service jobs are substantially permanently off shore?
Joe Hueglin, Niagra Falls ON.
