Alberta jobs Minister Lori Sigurdson re-announced her flagship job creation program on Monday. It's a $5,000 hiring grant to employers for every job they create.
This program was first announced during the NDP attack budget with few details. We still have few details. And that’s a problem.
Here's what we do know:
The program rolls out January 2016.
It gives the employer a $5,000 grant for each new job created up to five hundred thousand dollars – or 100 full time jobs per employer.
The program is capped at $89 million annually and is a first come first serve program. This means a maximum of 18 thousand jobs will be created by this program. We are losing 1,000 jobs per week in Alberta. This doesn’t come close to making a dent in the job losses since Notley took office.
Here is the part, besides the vagueness, that sends up alarm bells; the program allows charities and non-profit organizations to qualify for the new grant. Strange.
The energy sector is bleeding jobs and now they have to compete for the limited grant money with non-profits and charities?
I venture to guess the only real jobs this program will create will be in the bureaucracy that will be needed to administer it.
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Now I fill in all the paperwork for the $5000.00 government break. By the time I see one dollar of that money, some or even all of the workers that I hired,will leave to go to a different company. We all know why. The average worker will leave any company that can’t pay equal or match another company. Now this has happened almost 15 times to me.
Some of the people have left the company, on just pennies on the dollar. And when I say pennies on the dollar, I mean pennies on the dollar. Some have left for 25 cents I am not kidding.
ever pseudo-job that is created in the Private sector.—- get creative—- start laying your good guys off—now—on paper——C’mon -Alberta boys
When your gov’t starts to cheat you——then—-if you are a Patriot—- cheat ’em right back.
Other than that, another excellent report, Sheila. And I hope Margaret Scratcher will be a regular from now on.
I wonder how many unions employees are going to get fired and re-hired over this?
“But it’s first come first served!” Oh that’s no problem. How do you keep the private sector from utilizing the program? Just create a crap ton of paperwork that nobody but a bureaucrat would ever do. The private sector has work to get done. These people are despicable. The opposition better keep this damn fraud accountable with how much of this money goes to the private sector vs public unions. What a farce.
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I know a couple of gals who smoke to much – they are 10 out of 10 on the scale.
I bet she has picked up to close to two packs a day because of the well deserved spanking she is getting.
This looks far more serious – I think she is close to a break down as she realizes she actually IS killing the province and even her friends have left her – she does not know what to do.
A couple of weeks before the election she was looking good enough that even I was giving her the lustful eye – but now she looks like used wet sandpaper
I bet she has some serious health issues before she finally gets the well deserved toe – and I believe she will have to leave the province a she will be a hated beyotch.
Good riddance.
The Maritimes has a long and proud tradition (60 years+) of handing out provincial government cheese in all sorts of make jobs programs. Look how prosperous that region is. Oh wait…
Yup, BZ, ol’ Raiche looks like she’s been chowin’ down on testosterone. My wife figures she looks like Robert Redford in drag. Maybe Albertans elected their first tranny premier.
Keep disclosing the crap of these socialist assholes Sheila.
Socialists sell heaven and deliver hell and it’s going to get much worse and very soon.
Probably worry wrinkles because she is getting flak from ALbertans when she is only doing what she thinks is correct. She might not be able to think outside of her NDP box … … and that is about as much of an olive branch as I will ever give Notley.
I think the pressure is already getting to her.
I wonder if she will last.
My best is no.
Not easy to take down a province. I suspect she is getting hit hard by her own family members while taking orders directly from the national dippers.
And where is the citizen of france – that bearded wonder has been pretty quiet lately – even the media has not bothered him – holidaying in Paris on his French passport perhaps?