A fair proposal

We are in a free-fall situation in terms of employment and the economy.

According to recent news reports, Heroux Devtek is completing a Mexican manufacturing facility. And, Bombardier has announced a new $200 million manufacturing facility in Morocco.

Bombardier Aerospace Pres. Guy Hachey used doublespeak when he said "our North American workforce has nothing to fear from the latest move".

A financial analyst was a bit more forthright when he said "(Bombardier) are not going to move aircraft assembly to Morocco. That's not happening anytime soon, and it's not happening in Mexico anytime soon".

"Anytime soon" is supposed to be encouraging to Canadian workers?

Heroux Devtek is setting up in Queretaro, Mexico, to manufacture aerostructures and landing gear systems. Queretaro has developed "an aerospace cluster of more than 50 companies, including Bombardier and General Electric".   In Queretaro also the government has created "National Aerospace University, the first Mexican R & D centre in the aerospace sector".

What is the Canadian government doing about the kinds of things that are happening as described above?

Nothing!

Prime Minister Harper is more concerned with destroying the long gun registsry, with the same viciousness applied by his Conservative predecessor Diefenbaker to the Avro Arrow aerospace program.  Harper also loves to strut on the world stage.  He is working on trade deals with EU and China to bring even more devastation to the Canadian jobs picture. 

We need wartime-type emergency measures to begin to save the Canadian economy and Canadian jobs.

Here is a fair proposal:

All stores, such as Wal-Mart, Home Depot, wholesale plumbing stores, etc., to be REQUIRED to carry and display Canadian-made goods alongside China goods.

Once this measure is put in place, with a timeline of one year, Canadian manufacturers will come forward with proposals for hundreds and later thousands of consumer, commercial, and industrial items.

Start with low-tech consumer items and as capabilities increase go on to more complex items.

If we need to abrogate and defy World Trade Organization rules and procedures, so be it.  World trade and globalization are destroying Canada.  Our manufactured goods trade deficit in 2010 was $80 billion, nearly triple the value in 2006 when Harper became Prime Minister.

How bad do things have to get before all Canadians are in the streets, not only the Occupy people?