[Bruce_the_vii]

Exhibit 1

___City________Official ____Labour Force__Adjusted____ Estimated_________Data
____________Unemployment____Level____LabourForce______Real________Source
_____________(percent)_______(percent)____(old age)____Unemployment_______
____________________________(NB1)________(NB 3)_________(NB2)___________

************************_Quebec_******************************

Montreal_______7.5___________66.9______________________14.0_______Feb. 2008
Quebec________5.8___________66.2_______________________13.3______Feb. 2008
Gatineau_______4.5___________73.2_______________________NB 4_______Feb. 2008

Saquenay_______9.9____________58.6______________________26.7_____Feb. 2008
Trois-Rivieres___8.7____________63.9______________________18.95____Feb. 2008
Sherbrooke_____6.4_____________64.8______________________15.8____Feb. 2008
Shawinigan_____10.4___________53.3_______________________33.7_____2007
Granby_________7.7____________69.4______________________11.0_____2007
Saint-Jean-sur-
__Richeliue_____7.8____________61.3_______________________21.5____2007
Rouyan-
__Noranda______8.2____________67.1_______________________14.4____2007

Sept-Iles________6.7____________66.0_______________________14.4____Census
Baie Comeau____7.5_____________67.2_______________________13.7____Census
Rimouski_______7.3____________63.5________________________18.2____Census

Canada_******_6.0_***********_68.0_**********************_11.3___Mar. 2008
Quebec_******_8.0_***********_65.1_**********************_16.8___Mar. 2008
416_*********_6.2_***********_66.6_**********************_13.2___Feb. 2008

NB. 1 The Labour Force level is the “the ‘participation’ in the work force by adults”.

NB. 2. The standard of 72% of the adult population in the work force is the base. As the number of people working goes higher this may be conservative. In practice it should be tested, experimented with.

NB. 3 I did not correct for the age profile of Quebec cities as it is not distorted as much as the West.

NB. 4 The Gatineau has a younger population profile than the rest of Quebec. However it is doing much better than the rest of the province.

***********************_Best Cities_Standard(NB 5)_***********************
Calgary_______3.0______________(74.9)__________70.8_________same___Feb. 2008
Edmonton______3.8_____________(73.2)__________70.6_________same__Feb. 2008
Grande Praire___3.8_____________(80.2)__________73.4_________same__Census
Red Deer________3.1___________(79.3)___________75.4_________same___2007
Medicine Hat_____3.8___________(75.0)___________75.4_________same____2005
905__________5.2_______________(79.2)___________75.x________same__Aug 1990
Barrie________6.1_______________76.2)____________73.4________same__2006


NB 5. The best cities all have rather a younger population. I subtracted the people 65 or older relative to the Canadian average. As retirement age is 62 – 63 this may not be enough.

[Bruce_the_vii]

The data is from Statistics Canada. It cost me about $100.

[Bruce_the_vii]

Here’s an anecdote on the conditions in the labour market in Grande Prairie as of this week. It's from a fairly articulate woman at Rabble.

“Hi bruce. Our closest city is Grande Prairie, and what I hear is that employers can't find staff unless they start over $13/hour. Tims does advertise 15 bucks for night shift, Superstore is advertising 16 bucks for night work. We were at a job fair yesterday with my son, and there wasn't any participating businesses offering less than 14/hr.”
“The cost of living here is pretty high - those wages are great for a kid living at home but not so much for someone who has to support themselves.”
“No end to the help wanted ads tho.”

[Benoit]

Quebec is mostly a Catholic province, not a Protestant one, thus Quebecers are not obsessed by work to the same extent than the ROC (rest of Canada) can be.

[novachick]

Benoit Benoit:

Quebec is mostly a Catholic province, not a Protestant one, thus Quebecers are not obsessed by work to the same extent than the ROC (rest of Canada) can be.

WTF does religion have to do with work ethic?

[mtbr]

Benoit Benoit:

Quebec is mostly a Catholic province, not a Protestant one, thus Quebecers are not obsessed by work to the same extent than the ROC (rest of Canada) can be.

there are no Catholics in Alberta

damn I better move

[Benoit]

novachick novachick:

Benoit Benoit:

Quebec is mostly a Catholic province, not a Protestant one, thus Quebecers are not obsessed by work to the same extent than the ROC (rest of Canada) can be.

WTF does religion have to do with work ethic?

You assume that "work ethic" fits here because you live in a Protestant culture.

[Red_Eye]

Benoit missed his life time career as a pitcher cause he always throws a curve ball..
Common, Catholic???? gee
Quebecers have very little to do with religion anymore. Churches are filled more with immigrants then anything else.
Is that holy incenses i smell???? must be pot then

[Benoit]

Red_Eye Red_Eye:

Quebecers have very little to do with religion anymore. Churches are filled more with immigrants then anything else.

Immigrants are Quebecers.

[Red_Eye]

Benoit Benoit:

Red_Eye Red_Eye:

Quebecers have very little to do with religion anymore. Churches are filled more with immigrants then anything else.

Immigrants are Quebecers.

HAHAH if they were Quebecers in the first place they wouldn't be called immigrants

[Benoit]

Red_Eye Red_Eye:

Benoit Benoit:

Red_Eye Red_Eye:

Quebecers have very little to do with religion anymore. Churches are filled more with immigrants then anything else.

Immigrants are Quebecers.

HAHAH if they were Quebecers in the first place they wouldn't be called immigrants

Racists call them names.

[Red_Eye]

Benoit Benoit:

Red_Eye Red_Eye:

Benoit Benoit:

Red_Eye Red_Eye:

Quebecers have very little to do with religion anymore. Churches are filled more with immigrants then anything else.

Immigrants are Quebecers.

HAHAH if they were Quebecers in the first place they wouldn't be called immigrants

Racists call them names.

ROTFL

[Benoit]

Red_Eye Red_Eye:

Benoit Benoit:

Red_Eye Red_Eye:

Benoit Benoit:

Red_Eye Red_Eye:

Quebecers have very little to do with religion anymore. Churches are filled more with immigrants then anything else.

Immigrants are Quebecers.

HAHAH if they were Quebecers in the first place they wouldn't be called immigrants

Racists call them names.

ROTFL

[Bodah]

Benoit Benoit:

Quebec is mostly a Catholic province, not a Protestant one, thus Quebecers are not obsessed by work to the same extent than the ROC (rest of Canada) can be.

Obsessed with work ? lol.... you got that right Quebecers work less than the ROC.

[Red_Eye]

Bodah Bodah:

Benoit Benoit:

Quebec is mostly a Catholic province, not a Protestant one, thus Quebecers are not obsessed by work to the same extent than the ROC (rest of Canada) can be.

Obsessed with work ? lol.... you got that right Quebecers work less than the ROC.

Funny, outside of quebec , quebecers have a reputation of being hard workers.