More Lies And Propagand From Pembina

[Anonymous]

What a sleazy organization. Shady deals as "experts" with Calgary city hall. Millions of dollars in foreign money to fight against Canadian industry. For the occtard hypocrits, I wonder how tax they pay on all their million$? The answer, a big fat zero.



It will definitely come as a surprise to all my suppliers in Ontario to know that they are better off without Western Canadian customers.  

The lefty Pembina Institute (one of Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi's favourite consultants) is at it again. This time the anti-oilsands think-tank is confirming NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair's assertion that Alberta's thriving energy sector is causing an economic slowdown in the rest of the country.



According to a report released by Pembina on Wednesday, the high dollar brought on by strong oil and gas sales has made it hard for Canadian manufacturers to compete. That has cost Canada hundreds of thousands of jobs.



That's a repeat of Mulcair's "Dutch disease" claim that Alberta's success has harmed Ontario and Quebec, in particular.



Unfortunately for the Pembina Institute (and for Mulcair), the CME sees things exactly opposite.



The CME is the association for Canadian Manufacturers and Exports and their own economic figures, to be released Thursday, show Alberta's energy sector is a great benefit to manufacturers all across the country.



Some manufacturers have lost international customers as a result of the high dollar, but according to the CME's own frank assessment, this is not the result of oilsands development. And for every manufacturer who has lost a foreign client, there are several who have found new customers, in Canada, in the oil and gas sector.



Curiously, for the past four decades, economic nationalists (like most of the researchers at Pembina) have been trying to increase internal Canadian markets for our manufacturers. They have advocated stiff tariffs on imports to make Canadian- made products more attractive. They have called for hefty subsidies to make Canadian goods cheaper to Canadian consumers. They have even demanded laws and regulations blocking foreign products that compete with Canadian ones.



But now that Alberta and the oilsands are creating more domestic markets for domestic manufacturers, lefty economists insist it's a bad thing. They are getting what they have always said they wanted. But because the increase is not being driven by bureaucratic initiatives and government planning -- because it is thanks to the actions of big, bad oil companies -- Pembina and others disparage it.



Pembina insists 40% to 75% of the job losses in manufacturing as a result of a higher dollar have been caused by the strength of the resource industry. And the institute claims (fancifully) that for every dollar invested in oil and gas, just two jobs are created. Meanwhile, every dollar invested in "clean" energy creates 15.



Steven Guilbeault of Equiterre, a Montreal environmental consultancy that partnered with Pembina on its oilsands study, claims "the manufacturing sectors of Ontario and Quebec have been, and still are, suffering greatly from the rapid increase in the value of the Canadian dollar. Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to register with the federal government. A truly national economic and energy plan would benefit communities and industries across the country, not just in one region."



More typical Alberta bashing (although passive-aggressively not mentioning the province by name).



But the CME begs to differ. And it should know, it is the voice of Canada's thousands of manufacturers and exporters.



While acknowledging the effect of the rising dollar on Canadian competitiveness, the CME says the problem was not surging energy sales but rather "poor labour productivity, lack of diversity among customers, and lower rates of overall capital investment."



Contrary to Pembina's propaganda, the CME says "increased investment in the oilsands may have strengthened the Canadian dollar, it is by no means the root cause of the challenges faced by Canadian manufacturing. Rather than having a negative impact on Canadian industry, the oilsands are providing a customer base for manufacturers."



Left-wing environmentalists should just come clean: they hate the oil industry, they hate profits and love big government. So all their studies are pre-coloured by their ideological goals.

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[Romero]

Canada's Great Economic Divide, In One Chart



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The gap between energy and everything else is translating into a regional divide in Canada — between the booming, oil-reliant West and the plodding economy of the rest of the country.



"The rapid pace of oilsands development is creating economic risks and regional disparities that need to be addressed," the left-leaning Pembina Institute said in a report released this week.



The report said the "overwhelming majority" of economic benefits from the oilsands boom "are limited to Alberta. Other provinces will benefit less: even the United States would gain more employment opportunities from the oilsands than the rest of Canada if oilsands development goes ahead as projected."



Bringing more jobs to the oilsands wouldn't work as a solution; the oil, gas and mining sector employs 225,000 people, compared to 1.5 million jobs in manufacturing. Booming oil exports simply can't replace stagnating factory exports. (Incidentally, jobs in oil, gas and mining actually fell by about 0.2 per cent over the past year.)



Nowhere is this more clear than in the auto industry, once one of the major drivers of central Canada's economy. Vehicle production is down nine per cent this year — and that's despite a global boom in auto sales.



The Pembina Institute has little doubt Dutch Disease is Canada's diagnosis.



"Recent analysis suggests that surging commodity prices explain as much as 40 to 75 per cent of the dollar's rise," the Pembina Institute said, referring to the loonie's reputation as a "petro-currency."



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You know what they say - "you need to diversify"!

[Anonymous]

^^Does anyone seriously believe this nonsense from Pembina? My suppliers in Ontario don't.



Without natural resources, Canada would be just as hopeless as Europe. We have irresponsible entitlements and in English speaking countries case expensive political pandering.



The Pembina Institute is a foreign funded anti-Canadian industry propaganda machine. They work against the interests of working Canadians. I think the CME knows their members a little better than Pembina does.



Don't take my word for it though. I will give you the names of my suppliers in Ontario and you ask them if their workers are better off with Western Canada's resource industries or without it. Pembina doesn't care about the truth, but Ontario's heavy manufacture workers do.