CERB Killed the Labour Force
Most of us knew the Village Idiots 'free' money to stay at home was going to cost the Taxpayers a whack of money...but these numbers are staggering. $102 Billion !!!
Help wanted signs are everywhere yet no one is applying for jobs. I suspect that will stop Oct 23 when the CRB benefits stop. Can't blame the Pandemic on being unemployed anymore.
The quote : “If UBI (universal basic income) comes into effect, agriculture will be a dead business.”..is pretty much already here, most farm pickers are bought into Canada from foreign countries.
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For 18 months now, unemployed Canadians have received unprecedented amounts of government money. First, Ottawa shelled out $74 billion for the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) from March to September 2020. The program then morphed into the Canada Recovery Benefit (CRB), which cost another $26.1 billion as of September 2021. Finally, the government extended the CRB until Oct. 23 of this year, for an additional $2.2 billion.
All this cash did more than keep people afloat. It also transformed the labour market. Across Canada, employers began reporting worker shortages. Agricultural employers found that prospective employees didn’t even show up for interviews. The hospitality industry reported the same phenomenon . A recent survey by the Business Development Bank of Canada of 1,251 small and medium-sized businesses found that 55 per cent are struggling to hire the workers they need, hampering growth and forcing businesses to delay or refuse new orders. In the words of one frustrated employer currently offering employees 65 per cent more than the minimum wage, “People don’t want to work, especially in agriculture or physical labour-based jobs.” He added, “If UBI (universal basic income) comes into effect, agriculture will be a dead business.”
