回复: 是不是很多从多伦多,蒙特利尔的人来这里找工作呢?
今天听收音机卡城的失业率由3.6%上升到3.9%,让人很担心这个城市的工作前景。
下午下课,坐交通车遇到刚从多伦多来找工作的华人电工,看样子是来这里很多年了,家安在多伦多,孩子在多大读书。可是最近那边的就业形势不好,他被laid off后现在到卡城来找工作。如果卡城不好找的话,就去北部油田找。然后等孩子大学毕业了就举家迁过来。看他花白的头发,不是很强健的体格,不知道说什么好。
现在我们的工作经验班也开学了,印巴人占了一半,菲律宾,中东的人也不少,听着他们流利的英语和强悍的专业背景,羡慕之及。一问,竟然好几个是最近几个月才从多伦多和蒙特利尔迁移来的。原来在那边都工作过,因为就业形势不好,才迁移到卡城来。
不过3,4天的时间,就遇到如此多从东部城市来这里找工作的“新移民”真让人感叹。
是不是加拿大就是这样,所谓的稳定生活也不过是人们随着工作走,哪里就工作机会,就在哪里安家。很少有象国内那样在一个企业或一个城市就能生活一辈子的?
主要还是阿伯塔的就业形式不好,和其他省的移民关系不大。看看新闻,12月分加拿大又有3万4千4百人丧失工作,其中阿伯塔就占了1万5千八。
Canadian employment fell by almost twice as much as expected in December, led by construction, more evidence that the world's eighth-biggest economy is suffering from the effects of a global recession.
Employers shed a net 34,400 workers after a drop of 70,600 in November, Statistics Canada said today in Ottawa. The jobless rate rose to a three-year high of 6.6 percent from 6.3 percent the month before. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg anticipated the unemployment rate would jump to 6.5 percent and employers would cut 20,000 positions.
Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney and his rate-setting panel last month slashed the target for overnight loans between commercial banks by three-quarters of a point to 1.5 percent, the lowest since 1958. Policy makers said Canada was entering a recession amid a ``broader and deeper'' global slump.
Gross domestic product will shrink by 0.4 percent next year and generate the country's first budget deficit in more than a decade, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said last month. He is scheduled to present a budget on Jan. 27 including an economic stimulus package of up to C$25 billion ($21.1 billion).
Employers shed 70,700 full-time positions while adding 36,200 part-time workers. Statistics Canada said 91,200 of the 98,300 jobs created in 2008 were part-time.
Construction companies slashed payrolls by 44,300 workers in December, the sharpest monthly decline since at least 1976, the agency said. Another 13,100 jobs were lost in professional, scientific and technical services. Employment in accommodation and food services fell by 12,200.
U.S. Demand
Canada's economy is struggling because of weak demand in the U.S., the country's main market, and slumping prices for commodities such as oil and wheat, which generate about half the country's export revenue. Automakers and forestry companies have been among the hardest hit.
Central bank policy makers may cut the benchmark interest rate to an all-time low of 0.5 percent this year, economists from CIBC World Markets and Bank of Nova Scotia said during a panel discussion in Toronto on Jan. 7. The next rate decision for the Bank of Canada, which was founded in 1934, is Jan. 20.
The western province of Alberta, which in recent years has benefited from an oil boom, fared the worst in December with a net job loss of 15,800. Alberta's unemployment rate jumped to 4.1 percent from 3.4 percent in November.
Canadian wage growth in December advanced at a pace of 4.3 percent, compared with 4.6 percent in November. That's still faster than inflation, with consumer prices advancing 2 percent in November from a year earlier.