The key phrase in captain kirk's quote from Macleans is 'government driven', which the captain uses to pretend its actually government jobs.So in her five years Wynne has more than made up for the job-losses in manufacturing by hiring all the factory hands laid-off in the decade and a half since 2003 and more, is that it? And it didn't make headlines, nor did she boast about it?
Sounds pretty unlikely to me. I said why above, and this version makes the 360,000 even less believable. If Macleans cited the actual StatsCan report so we could see it for ourselves, maybe. But they didn't. Did you find it? I certainly haven't found anything like it. Best so far is that Hudak vs. Wynne number of a swivel service of less than 100,000, and that is StatsCan.
The same article notes what really screwed Ontario's economy, and it wasn't the liberals.
They also note Wynne's approach to the problem.The party ended, alas, with breathtaking abruptness. By mid-2007, spiking oil prices had driven up the value of the loonie, removing a cost advantage Ontario factories had long enjoyed over their U.S. competitors. With the 2008 financial crisis, U.S. demand for Canadian non-energy products cratered—a decline that deepened over the next few years as oil soared again to US$100 per barrel.
So the question becomes what would a Ford government do for the same problem?. But Dimitry Anastakis, an economic historian at Trent University in Peterborough, Ont., believes the situation is dire enough that the government has to act. And if it’s going to act, he says, it makes sense to go all-in. “When you lose that manufacturing base and the technology that comes with it, you have to do something,” he says. “Wynne is focusing on some green tech, some information technology and some services. This is a slow-motion attempt to ratchet the economy into the 21st century. Whether it’s going to be a success is a completely different story.”