GM Canada president says electric vehicles are the future, but they won’t be made in Oshawa – November 4, 2018,
Regulations have caused Ontario not to be a destination of manufacturing and the truth is this has been happening for years, dating back to the 1990s since the first NAFTA deal was created. Sure, I can only blame NAFTA, but the truth is this all started because of Pierre Trudeau. I talk with a lot of people from Canada and a large number of them view the world from a position of entitlement. This wasn’t the commonly accepted reality in the 1990s, in the 1990s, Canadians knew that money came from the private sector. My managers and supervisors would usually be upfront with us workers how we got our paychecks. Sure there were a few know it all morons who assumed the managers or bosses had an unlimited supply of money, but anyone with common sense could see the truth and the truth back then was if sales targets weren’t met, there was a very serious threat that we’d all lose our jobs.
GM Canada president says electric vehicles are the future — but they won’t be made in Oshawa – CBC – “I don’t think you could put anything else in Oshawa,” he said. “Not without spending incredible amounts of investment, which would make it not viable.”
What a lot of people forget is why people lose their jobs in the first place. Prior to the creation of minimum wages, barely anyone would lose their jobs, what you get were a lot of people who would simply quit. However to put quitting a job in its proper perspective, one has to remember what happens when a person quits a job when there are no minimum wages. When a person quits a job when there’s no minimum wage regulation, what often happens is they’re soon replaced, sometimes with someone more competent, also when a person quits a job, if that person leaves his or her employer without first securing another job first, that individual might find his/herself in a far worse job situation than they were afforded prior.
This, of course, is what leads a lot of people to politicians who offer welfare for the poor. In the real world, in the real employment world where being an entrepreneur or a self-employed individual is the goal, what smart employees are looking for isn’t job security, what they’re looking for is a skill that can make them self-employed. What does this mean exactly, if I’m an automobile technician/mechanic after I become a master at fixing automobiles do I really need my boss? Do I really need a boss? What would stop me from opening my own shop? The only thing that would stop is a lack to take action to be self-employed. This is the risk most bosses face when they hire people, however, because our public education system revolves around socialist thinking, students who graduate from school often approach the workforce with a sense of docile entitlement.
Why not learn how this trade works and become my own boss is not a common form of thinking amongst college graduates, instead most of them learn their trade and look for job security, job security or financial security is the problem in the modern world. It’s the reason why Donald Trump is President, it’s the reason Justin Trudeau is Prime minister. Donald Trump gives a sense of security to middle working class Americans, Justin Trudeau gives a sense of security to the people and entities on some form of Government Welfare in Canada. This, of course, leads to individuals assuming that the Government knows best, the politician is the smartest person and things just seem to fall into place.
So, when this entitlement mentality becomes the culture, it becomes increasingly harder to wake people up to what’s really happening, then, of course, you have the people that only want to apply the free market principles that they like and add the Marxist doctrines that they believe would better make society more equal or balanced. This, of course, is the reason why an economic collapse is heading for Canada’s doorstep if something isn’t done soon. In the CBC article, I point to in this blog post, one of the main persons responsible for the GM plant closure Jerry Dias is viewed as the savior for the plant.
Unifor National President, Jerry Dias reminds me of an abusive husband who berates his loving wife every day, nitpicking everything he thinks she does wrong and then is surprised when she hands him the divorce papers. The assumption of the entitled is that the gravy train will last forever, I usually don’t write in depth about Private Sector Unions, because in my opinion, they have a right to exist, I just think if their members had taken the time to be their own union bosses instead of their reliance on these external union bosses they’d be more prosperous, their children would be more prosperous, our country would be more prosperous and we as a society would be more knowledgeable about the causes and effects to collective bargaining and multilateral trade deals.
Canada is involved in a lot of multilateral trade deals, the Paris Agreement is one of them. A little basic information about the Paris Agreement it’s the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), dealing with greenhouse-gas-emissions mitigation, adaptation, and finance, starting in the year 2020.
Now, as of December 4, 2018, GM has made it clear that they won’t be doing business in Oshawa past the year 2019. As many Canadians have learned, The United States under Donald Trump plan to leave the Paris Agreement, with that said there aren’t any guarantees that this will happen. Canada on the other hand as of the date of this post has every intention of remaining in the Paris Agreement
List of parties to the Paris Agreement
So obviously GM is going to leave Oshawa, I don’t know if people remember, this but Justin Trudeau recently forced a carbon tax. He promised to go full steam ahead with the carbon tax plan, so much so that he made sure that added a rebate to it. Of course, one month after all manufacturers in Ontario read this plan they’ve made up their minds on what their next plans are.
GM just made theirs sooner, because they’ve already received government handouts in the past and well, when a government promises to give you a rebate, those government checks don’t always come in on time and they usually come with stipulations attached to them. People not in business have a hard time understanding how a rebate works, in easy to understand terminology a rebate is like a tax return, you’re getting back your own money minus the government fees. A tax return only benefits the people who are 100% on welfare, the people who don’t work or the people who work but at a loss or in business that aren’t profitable. The articles below basically confirms what I’m writing.
Why GM made the decision not to make electric vehicles in Oshawa is because manufacturing electric vehicles consumes a lot of Co2 emissions and this is the paradox with the Paris Agreement, if you want electric vehicles to be the dominant vehicles on the road these vehicles need to be built first, before these carbon emission standards artificially raise the cost to build vehicles that will solve this apparent climate change disaster that’s plaguing the planet.
Being that Canada for the foreseeable future will be going full steam ahead with the Paris Agreement, along with all the other green regulations Canada has already taken on, it’s simply not profitable for there to be any manufacturing here. It’s important to remember that the other car companies in Canada can and probably will leave if they’re not given any subsidies also.
The only thing that happened with GM is that they’re tired of it, they’re tired of having to deal with the Unions, the Canadian government, the regulations and the multilateral trade deals Canada keeps signing which makes their life as a business suffer. It’s really that simple and Canadians have to remember that GM is also closing plants in American states
In Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly plant in Detroit and the Lordstown Assembly in Warren, Ohio will be shut down in 2019. GM propulsion plants in White Marsh, Maryland, and Warren, Michigan will also be shut down. GM even plans to shut down plants in Korea. Their restructuring is something every business has to do eventually, Ford Motors and others will be doing the same type of restructuring in the future, what I’m pointing to, however, is why these jobs are leaving, these jobs are leaving because of regulations, if let’s say GM could restructure and retrain these employees without all the regulations attached they would, but if you retrain a highly paid, entitled workforce with a strong Union and governments hell-bent on a Paris Agreement, as a business you have to look at things for what they are.
Are shareholders going to hold this GM stock with all the liabilities associated with restructuring and if they don’t who’s going to pay for the restructuring of the GM business model? Even Donald Trump used GM’s prior bailouts as a means to try and force GM to keep its U.S job force employed. There is no company in the private sector that wants to be used as the governments whipping boy, which is really what a Government Bailout or a Government rebate is all about. Politicians want these big corporations to make them look good, in the case of Trudeau he wants to give the illusion that Canada can go green without harming business interests, in America Trump doesn’t want to seem weak in front of the people who voted him in.
When Justin Trudeau goes out on his campaign trail and says we’re going to make the rich pay more so he can give to the people he believes are less fortunate, in the minds of the people who vote for him, the rich he talks about are companies like GM. Even though most of Trudeau’s increases in taxes will be paid by the middle classes and poor, the perception is that he and the Liberal Party are trying to tackle an evil capitalist monster and we all have to vote for him so he can bring us free treasures.
The mere fact that Canadians continuously fall victim to this Leftist propaganda is a sign to me that chances are things will get a lot worse before they get better, I’m of the belief that an economic collapse will have to occur before people realize how stupid these Leftist ideas are. With that said, GM will be looking for Software engineers, and well this isn’t always great news for the domestic population, as many people are aware, talented domestic software engineers tend to work for themselves or demand higher salaries, which is why many of them are often imported from other countries like India. This is obviously something I’ll write about another time. But again Canada, I’ll be paying close attention to the coming Federal election, because this will tell me all I need to know about the future of the Canadian economy.
In closing, in case Canadians haven’t noticed, the solutions for cleaner air already exist and we don’t need the government to intervene in order to make it a reality, all we have to do is vote with our pockets, become educated and understand that a diverse energy sector would be the fastest means to cleaner energy. What these government enforced climate change initiatives will do is they’re going to create new energy monopolies, it’s already happening in Paris, Gas prices are too expensive, people can’t fuel their cars to go to work, people aren’t even being given the chance to fix climate change on their own, instead people are losing everything.
People forget energy is centralized in the developed world, which is why a lot of people assume that it’s an easy fix, oh build some solar panels and some wind farms, problem solved right? No, the problem just got more complicated, the problem would be solved if all forms of energy creation were used and the dirty forms were slowly fazed out via innovations. The Smartphone replaced the analog phones, because the cell phone market, the electronics market, in general, is the least regulated industry in the world. Governments don’t solve problems, free people solve problems, namely, people who aren’t forced to pay or contribute to causes they’re not interested in.
If I as an individual, want to solve the energy needs of the planet and that’s all I want to do, imagine if I didn’t have to spend 60%+ of my income on paying the government to do initiatives in the most inefficient manner possible, because remember what happens when the government over-taxes you is that they take the money and give that money to an entity that they deem or consider more worthy.
Now, if you’re the receiver of this government money and you have a monopoly, wouldn’t you or your workforce demand even more money once you realize that the larger you get the less competition you have? This is what’s happening in the energy sector, this is what happens in every monopoly that gets money from the government or from governments, there’s no longer any incentive to be efficient instead the incentive is to be less efficient, less responsible and this, of course, leads to entitlements, because this is why most people assume that the Government is God because even though these policies are destructive, they haven’t proven to be disastrous yet, The boiling frog fable, people get used to government incompetence, many never experiencing free market capitalism assume that this is as good as it can get.
In the 1970s the assumption was that we’d be in flying cars by now if you’re wondering why that didn’t happen, is because the size of government grew, more regulations, drones exist, helicopters exist, we haven’t expanded these industries because regulations restricted what individuals could build. We’re not free and I’m hearing a lot of people asking the government to strip us of even more of our freedoms, the reality is there would probably be a lot more car manufacturers had it not be for so many regulations and if there were more car manufacturers chances are most people would have switched to electric cars a long time ago simply to save money. wake Up Canada before it’s too late.
Interesting times ahead.
