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SOME THINGS THAT CANADIANS HAD BETTER
KNOW ABOUT THEIR OWN COUNTRY
By: Robert T. Chisholm B.Sc.Hons.(Eng.)
Date: December 2006
WHY I HAVE DONE THIS WEB SITE:-
1. Canadians need to be told the unpleasant truth about some things
that are going on in their country, with particular reference to under-stating
the size and character of the unemployment problem.
Former Ottawa Citizen publisher Russell Mills said many
things about what is wrong in Canada during his speech at an O.C.R.I. Awards
Dinner in Ottawa on March 20th 2000, but the true size and character of the
unemployment problem was an area which was left out.
The problems with H.R.D.C. accounting for job-creation grants,
reported at length in the media in early 2000 and commented on by Russell
Mills, are important but are actually of relatively minor importance - compared
with the un-recognised loss of revenue to the tax base, caused by persistent
and gross under-reporting of the numbers of unemployed in real terms.
New information - Statistics Canada - IMPORTANT - October 17th 2003 - click
HERE
Almost all media reports to date have been based on
incomplete statistical information from H.R.D.C. and /or Statistics Canada.
These reports have emphasised the so-called official unemployment
rate which totally mis-represents the real numbers of unemployed (e.g . 38,000 officially unemployed in the Ottawa
C.M.A. compared with 145,000 unemployed in real terms, as at Fall 1998, based
on the O.E.C.D. report Ottawa s Hidden Workforce).
At the same time, Ottawa is doing very well compared with the rest of
Canada. But this does not mean that we are doing as well as we should be or
could be, by any means.
All Canadians must realise that the problems will never be solved if
they are not properly defined in the first place. They cannot, for example,
know the true numbers of permanent new full-time jobs needed in Canada if they
are not given complete and correct information about the numbers of unemployed
persons who want to work and contribute to the tax base. One could make a rough estimate of the numbers of such jobs
needed in the whole of Canada as at least 4.3 million, based on the Fall 1998
figures for the Ottawa C.M.A sample (which represents about 1/30th of Canada's
total population).
This is critical to ensuring that all Canadians with potential to contribute
to the tax base are not excluded from doing so because of general ignorance of
the problem or because of bureaucratic red tape.
If we do not set about solving it at once, the results will soon
appear in the form of even more severe problems for health care, education etc.
- as if they are not bad enough already. These problems and others are the
results of lack of tax dollars available, relative to need.
Here are some details that everybody needs to be reminded about :- CLICK HERE
2. Here are some ideas for what should be done about it, starting with
Ottawa Citizen publisher Russell Mills' warnings about what is wrong in Canada
and what must be done to fix it, in his speech at an O.C.R.I. awards dinner in
Ottawa on Wednesday, March 29th 2000
WHAT RUSSELL MILLS HAS TO SAY - CLICK HERE
WHAT WE SHOULD BE DOING AND WHY - CLICK HERE
3. I have to publicise a demand for proper treatment in my own case, by
H.R.D.C and others - because, in the 21 years since I came here from the U.K.
to work as a professional engineer, I have met far too many people in Canada
who do not bother to do things properly, or do not care, or both, and as a
result have been unemployed for most of that time.
Further, with respect to getting work, I require an ON-SITE
placement or Targeted Wage Subsidy placement and recognition of my U.K.
engineering qualifications and experience, without delay, as the means to get
work as a software developer or professional engineer and become a contributor
to the tax base. Currently (December 2006) my preference is
to work for Suncor Inc. in Fort McMurray, Alberta, but my ideas are not
restricted to this.
In addition, I demand the removal
of lawyer Jonathan P. Langsner from the Legal Services department of H.R.D.C.,
and his expulsion from the legal profession, for incompetence. This demand is
supported by documentation displayed elsewhere on this web site
Here are some details of WHY:- CLICK HERE
4. Like other people in my position, I
have a vested interest in not being talked-down to by people who dont know what
they are talking about and dont care.
For this reason, I have been doing certain
work behind the scenes to bring about a solution to Canada s economic problems,
which is the basis for solving the unemployment problem.
Further, certain people in positions
of authority have listened to what I have to say, starting on March 9th 1994
when I appeared before the federal Standing Committee on Human Resources
Development.
More
recently (1998/ 1999), I was advising - on a voluntary basis - the Partners
for Jobs Task Force set up by former R.M.O.C. Chair Bob Chiarelli (who was
then Mayor of the City of Ottawa up to November 2006). You will find proof of
what I have just said on this web site. Other work I have done since 1999 is
covered elsewhere.
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