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Gravter,Nov 1 2007, 07:52 AM Wrote:I know our exporting is suffering from this though.  There is a pulp and paper mill here that is one of the main employer and if it shuts down, my region will be deaply affected!
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tell me about it.. I know a couple people in BC that have been laid off due to the decrease in demand.

I think our high dollar is going to kill us -- the US is such a huge trading partner, and we're going to end up losing a lot of that trade.

Even where I sit, I get a lot of my work because canadian labour is 1/3rd that of the US (and India is 1/5th of that, but they have to do the work 3 times over)... so we're starting to lose our edge in the global resourcing business... and that has me a bit worried.