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‘didaippeared forever, - ” decried the shortage of Information on future labor needs |.” “Itls apparent, the council said, that ‘technological thang ‘ ° PA eae
-; The: recession has sped P p the ahakéout, in: the: world ‘ in Canada will catise far-reaching | alterations.in the labor SS

i economy that has been occurring in recent. yeara ag we - _— a creme == market

- enter a new ‘economic ‘cycle “in which . technological

2 superiority. is the key to economic. growth. Many critics say

. Canada is not preparing for. this new world ‘and won't be

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_, ‘lv & recent speech’ on’ ‘the future of the industrialized
' West, France's industry minister said predicting where
jobs and economic growth will come from in the future isa

major problem facing planners today.’ -

’- Inurging French businessmen to be more inventive and
dependent. on research and development, Jean-Pierre .
Chevepement said: “Remember thatone-third of all -

# products that will be on the market in five years do not even

a exist today.”

* Identifying where the -jobs of the future will be, is

especially important for Canadian planners because this

country haa one of the highest unemployment rates in the
industrialized World — 109 per cent. ‘
Part of the reason for our high unemployment is simply
that the recession has cut. demand for primary metals,
forest products and cars: — leading to layotts i in those i in-

dustries;. = | .

‘Part of it is alse that many firms have gone bankrupt

because. they couldn't survive high Interest rates and

When: ‘th cuirent: fecession. fly énds many, ‘of ne = production lines,

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determination as their foreign competitors. Unless they do,. *
Canada ‘will lose out on jobs and. prospefity. We already
import more ‘manufactured goads per, capita than any other
industrial country in the world. .

~ *" Qur complacency — based. ‘perhaps on the false pssump:
tion that renewed demand for.resources will pull us out of
recession and sustain future growth ~~. will mean in-

_lolerably high unemployment for some time, even when
there is an economic upturn in the Western industrialized
world, critics say ,tern industrialized world, critics say.

- Don Daly, a professor at York University in Toronto, says
+. that although the expected economic’ upturn willimprove ; - ee, omen sO, a a ve ; -
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tremendous cost-cutting done by firms during the 3 Tecession a .

means they won't be hiring back all the workers’ they laid

aif. Many workers will be permanently: unemployed or will

have to be retrained for new. industries. .

“For example, Chrysler Corp. slashed its organization in
the U.S, so it now can make a profit by selling 1.2 million
vehicles. Three years ago it had to sell two million to break
even. To avoid bankruptcy, the company has closed, inef-

office: employees and improved quality control. | .
. » While-the company may survive, there's no doubt that. ~*~
thousands of Chrysler's U. 5 workers will never’ get their
fobs back. : ‘ ;
“The Chrysler example is being repeated elsewhere in
“North America and Europe to meet the Japanese industrial © ~
challenge. Japanese firms also are developing their own.
plans (emphasizing technology) to compete with trimmed-
down and more aggressive Western corporations.
In Canada, high unemployment makes transition ta
advanced technology more difficult. .
“There is nothing quite like imminent job loss Gr massive :
de-skilling to turn a worker into an implacable opponent of .
new technology,” says R. A.. Hainsworth, education .
director of the Ontario Federation of Labor. ; ‘
'-He acknowledges however, that many industries have . ,
_ introduced technological changes that while eliminating a
some typés of jobs have actually created jobs. -
Daly says a worldwide economic recovery will help get
our unemployment down to seven or eight per ‘cent, but we -
*. won't be able to improve on-that unless we develop high-
technology industries and improve productivity. ’
- We risk .becoming. a second-class industrial country -
unless we increase competitiveness by lowering labor costs
— either through lower wages or improving labor efficiency
with new technology, he says. —' —™
_ “Canada’s. lack’ of research and development is not: ry
major problem, because we can always buy new technology :
elsewhere, He is céncerned, however, that we lag far... .: .
behind other- countries in adopting new technology. ; ,
The proportion of Canadian firms using computers is only ©
half of that in the U.S.'and Japan, “an indication that slow
‘adoption of technology is the major problem facing this
country,” he says. weties
_ , >.While the fully computerized-integrated factory is still
i some years away, he says, many U:S: and European.
: companies are using computers to design products and run -

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