Thoughts about Canadian budget 2013? (school, university, pool)

[nuala]

Just passed?

Glad to see help coming to skilled trades, as the mismatch of jobs begging and people begging for jobs has become ridiculous.

Budget 2013 analysis: Restraint, Canadian style - The Globe and Mail

[BruSan]

Nothing new here!

Governments never learn and politicians gleaned from the college university pool know nothing of those folks who are actually required to build the desks they thump on like the trained seals at Marineland.

This dates back to our growth after WWII and our reliance upon immigration to fill our skilled trades requirements. We could rely upon that bottomless barrel of supply until those countries we drew from arrived at a lifestyle equivilancy to ours.

Exacerbated by a school system actively engaged in teaching every student "a College or Univeristy degree is the only worthwhile endeavour and all the rest are losers" education curriculae.

We began coming up short of skilled craftsmen across the board as recognized by Federal and Provincial govt's as early as the late 70's and guess what; NOTHING was done other than to acknowledge the problem.

You can hardly expect politicians, the bulk of whom have never gotten their hands dirty actually building anything, to understand, accept and confront the seriousness of the problem.

Too little too late!

[Stubblejumper]

It seems very 'middle of the road' to me. Neither a truly determined attempt to limit spending nor any real initiatives, just a few token handouts on each side.

I was annoyed, though not surprised to see that the deficit will be larger than predicted.