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Title: U.S. workers could help plug skills gap in Canada, study finds
Category: Business
Posted By: DrCaleb
Date: 2013-10-04 11:05:13
Canadian

[Jabberwalker]

Yes, they could but how trainable are they?

Can they learn to speak and write English?

[BartSimpson]

You folks can start by taking all of our Mexicans.

[DrCaleb]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

You folks can start by taking all of our Mexicans.

We tried, but every winter - they leave.

[BRAH]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

You folks can start by taking all of our Mexicans.

Does that include George Lopez?

[Jabberwalker]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

You folks can start by taking all of our Mexicans.

We tried, but every winter - they leave.

... like monarch butterflies. Then, some of them die in the U.S. on the trip back to Mexico ... just like monarch butterflies.

[BartSimpson]

BRAH BRAH:

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

You folks can start by taking all of our Mexicans.

Does that include George Lopez?

One can only hope.

[jj2424]

There was a time where Canadians were willing to come to Alberta to work but, some where along the line they all became a bunch of lazy sheep who would prefer to sit at home in Ontario and bitch about the "dirty tarsands" with their hand open looking for "dirty tarsands" money.

[BartSimpson]

jj2424 jj2424:

There was a time where Canadians were willing to come to Alberta to work but, some where along the line they all became a bunch of lazy sheep who would prefer to sit at home in Ontario and bitch about the "dirty tarsands" with their hand open looking for "dirty tarsands" money.

He shoots, he scores!

[saturn_656]

jj2424 jj2424:

There was a time where Canadians were willing to come to Alberta to work but, some where along the line they all became a bunch of lazy sheep who would prefer to sit at home in Ontario and bitch about the "dirty tarsands" with their hand open looking for "dirty tarsands" money.

You know some of us already have decent paying jobs in Ontario and don't need Albertan cash.

[Jabberwalker]

saturn_656 saturn_656:

jj2424 jj2424:

There was a time where Canadians were willing to come to Alberta to work but, some where along the line they all became a bunch of lazy sheep who would prefer to sit at home in Ontario and bitch about the "dirty tarsands" with their hand open looking for "dirty tarsands" money.

You know some of us already have decent paying jobs in Ontario and don't need Albertan cash.

Yes and we also get our petroleum from the Gulf of Mexico.

[BartSimpson]

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

Yes and we also get our petroleum from the Gulf of Mexico.

After it's refined. And before it's refined guess where it comes from?

[Jabberwalker]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

Yes and we also get our petroleum from the Gulf of Mexico.

After it's refined. And before it's refined guess where it comes from?

First of all, I'm all for Enbridge, so you're trolling up the wrong tree, tonight. Second, you are dead wrong about where our petroleum comes from. We get it from Mexico, Venezuela and even the Persian Gulf and it is refined on the East Coast and Quebec, then shipped inland. It costs less to do that them to transport it "over the hump" by pipeline from Western Canada (although that is the eventual plan, using an old natural gas pipeline).

[andyt]

Or, we could just train our own people.

[Jabberwalker]

I like that idea better. We have bright, young people all over the country who can't get decent employment, cant quite get started. Give them first dibs.