Quote of the Day: “Not since the days of the Hitler Youth have young people been subjected to more propaganda on more politically correct issues. At one time, educators boasted that their role was not to teach students what to think but how to think. Today, their role is far too often to teach students what to think on everything from immigration to global warming to the new sacred trinity of ‘race, class and gender.’” Thomas Sowell
Guio Jacinto is an economic researcher with the United Steelworkers. He holds an MA in Political Science from York University. His bio on the Insight Page today tells us he is a “Political Economist”. Ummm… O.K. I guess. His op-ed deals with the increase in imported steel products from “China, South Korea, India and Turkey.” After going through a few statistics, he has writes this gem: “Meanwhile, 100 Canadian steelworker jobs at Gerdau Cambridge, a long products producer, have remained laid off as a result of the ‘temporary’ idling of its electric arc furnace in 2013 due to a surge of imports.” Really??? When I looked into this layoff, I came across this: “Company officials say the work currently done at the shop will move to a larger plant in Whitby.” The quote is from this page from CTV News: https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/cambridge-steel-plant-shuts-down-melt-shop-100-out-of-work-1.1401184 So, Mr. Jacinto, is the layoff really “due to a surge of imports”??? Of course, Jacinto, the “Economist” doesn’t explain that cheaper steel imports means the products produced from these imports are also cheaper and therefore benefit consumers that purchase them. Pathetic.