04-14-2024, 11:39 PM
(04-14-2024, 01:58 AM)danbrotherston Wrote: Except we don't have a shortage of jobs. Unless something has changed drastically with the economy and I haven't heard about it, the employment rate has been in the typical low range.
This is unlike housing which has had a clear and growing deficit for years.
So we have a crisis in one thing, which we won't fix, and we have no crisis in a thing we'll do anything to fix.
Dan I'm sorry to say but to say there isn't a job shortage is absolutely ridiculous, maybe it is true for other municipalities in Ontario but KW? That's unfortunately a lie, talk to anyone who works in a minimum wage job and you would very quickly find out how absurd that statement is.
I work at a well known box store which had it's job fair a couple of weeks ago and the amount of people who came was ridiculous, it was to the point where some of us couldn't even do our jobs because there was just too many people. The particular store I work at only had 20 positions to fill yet we had literal hundreds of people come in person, not to mention the hundreds of applicants online. The day of the job fair we had people lining up before the store even opened which was more than 2 hours before the job fair started. By the time the job fair started there was easily a line of 50 people if not more. By the time the day was over the rough estimate was there was about 2-4 hundred people who came in for a mere 20 positions. Plus all those online applicants as well.
So no there is a job shortage and the truth of the matter is that we do need more jobs just as much as we need new housing. They go hand in hand, people need a place to live just as much as they need a place to work.