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redshift
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posted 11 October 2003 11:55 AM      Profile for redshift     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
my candle burns at both ends,
it will not last the night,
ah,but while it burns,my dear,
it gives a wondrous light.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/BizTicker/CANOE-wire.Consumer-Bankruptcies.html
the forces of business are merrily working at snuffing as many points of light as possible.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/AtlanticTicker/CANOE-wire.NB-Irving-Shipyard.html
there are so many people out there whose combined income wouldn't buy the Irvings attention through dinner, who will rush to the defense of free market economics, that I almost didn't bother.and that's a very real danger.


From: cranbrook,bc | Registered: Oct 2001  |  IP: Logged
Jacob Two-Two
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posted 11 October 2003 12:06 PM      Profile for Jacob Two-Two     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Bucking the trend is Quebec, the only province where the number of consumer proposals for bankruptcies is still falling.

What do people think? Any clear reason for this?


From: There is but one Gord and Moolah is his profit | Registered: Jan 2002  |  IP: Logged
redshift
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posted 11 October 2003 01:14 PM      Profile for redshift     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
http://www.naalc.org/english/publications/prelim_4.htm
"Outside of Quebec, Canada's provincial labor law authorities, as well as the federal jurisdiction, do not extend terms and conditions of employment negotiated by major unions and employers in a sector to the rest of the firms and workers in that sector. In Quebec, however, there are twenty-nine specified sectors where collective agreements are extended by decree (authorized by Quebec's labor law) to all firms in the sector. Thirteen are province-wide in scope, and sixteen are regional or cover the Montreal metropolitan area.

Firms in the sector are covered by the agreement regardless of unionization status, and whether or not they engaged in bargaining over the agreement. These extended agreements are supervised by "parity committees" with representatives of unions and employer associations signatory to the collective agreements. They cover more than 125,000 Quebec workers in such sectors as garment manufacturing, automobile repairs, building maintenance and private security agencies."


a union perspective suggests that this law, coupled with a strong family-based social structure and a highher than average real minimum wage are probably contributing factors.


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DrConway
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posted 13 October 2003 10:10 PM      Profile for DrConway     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Quebec's social safety net is also the broadest in Canada, as their welfare rates are higher than most other provinces' levels. In addition the marginal tax rate in Quebec at the bottom end is a piddly 1% compared to BC's combined marginal tax rate of 24% at the bottom end.
From: You shall not side with the great against the powerless. | Registered: May 2001  |  IP: Logged

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