Comments by "firstandforemost87" (@firstandforemost87) on "Justin Trudeau says he disagrees with Elizabeth May, Yves Blanchet that "oil is dead" in Canada" video.

  1. “Nobody said we don’t need AB workers, the question was do we need heavily polluting tar sands” Lol. Way to really humanize AB there. Totally didn’t make them sound like the colony that you know they are. We need AB peasants. We just want to decide how their labour and capital is employed. Thx for reminding Canadians why AB is starting to seriously question its place and future in confederation.
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  2. James Butler Okay James. Thanks for the uplifting speech. I’m sure your platitudes will feed families and prevent foreclosures. Big change is coming. You’re right. People might have to go through some national border checkpoints on the trans Canada soon.
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  3. Brett Thomas Same same right? All those industry guys can just get a new trade, go back to school, and/or learn to code. Easy peezy. Let’s all just keep pretending that human capital is simply transferable across industry/sector and instantly downloadable across age cohorts.
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  4. I was just typing that actions speak louder than words, then I saw ur comment. This is just lip service to try to soothe the rising separatist sentiment out West post gun ban announcement. When push comes to shove he will do what he needs to do to stay in power and this will likely mean bending a knee to the NDP.
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  5. Jafo The price is because of the pandemic ‘eh’, and the rest of what you said is just an incoherent mess ‘budd’.
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  6. Jimmy Arbutus I seem to remember Quebec being permitted a referendum on the matter. Is AB not worthy of the same consideration?
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  7. Brett Thomas Care to elaborate?
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  8. Mike Webber That’s labor Mark. That’s just us swinging our hardware around. Human Capital (for the most part) is our software. It’s quality training and education (high value education). You can replace labour. Bodies are, by and large, fungible. You can’t replace the person and everything their knowledge and experience contributed, and that’s because their accumulation is a time intensive (often lifelong) process. Unfortunately, as capital deepening sees labour markets being driven more and more human capital as opposed to actual labour, a natural consequence of this is that jobs and industries become more and more specialized. More specialization means that employees and their skills are less transferable across industries. Less versatility means harder times in unemployment and harder times for communities hit by sweeping changes.
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