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The initial step will consist of a wide exposure of the true size and character of the problem accompanied by some recommendations for solution terminating with the question, “well, what are we going to do about it?” This is necessary to get everybody to think about what part they might play.

 

 

2.4   Based on projections to date concerning the decline in the numbers of persons in the work force, the projected consequences in terms of income tax increases, and the proposed remedy in terms of immigration numbers, the case for implementing major changes is beyond dispute. The purpose of such change must be to optimise the use of human resources – currently unemployed in real terms – to optimise revenues to the tax base, to prevent serious short-falls relative to need caused by projected increases in necessary expenditure on health care (among other things). The present situation is already perceived as unacceptable – politically and otherwise; unless major remedial action is taken without delay, it will rapidly get worse over about the next 30 years. For these and other reasons, the author considers drastic action to be imperative; alternatively, he could say that Canada cannot afford to continue in the present manner.

 

2.5   In addition, a revised form of business organisation, like HRDC but with additional personnel and with full accountability to the public, will be necessary to prevent major system dysfunctions which are currently commonplace.

 

See "SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST EMPLOYMENT POLICY" , published by the Caledon Institute in April 2000.

 

It appears to the author that a satisfactory organisational model would be a single and autonomous business organisation for each municipality - composed of federal government (HRDC) personnel, provincial government personnel and municipal government personnel, supported by one or more Advisory Committees, and which must report regularly to an oversight group composed of members of the public and the business community. The Advisory Committee(s) should be composed of members of the public with demonstrable knowledge and interest in the subject matter involved.

 

2.6 It is recommended that a pilot project, consisting of the revised form of organisation just referred to in para. 2.5 above, be undertaken in the City of Ottawa.

 

  1. Effective management of human resources in Ottawa and Canada generally, for the purposes of optimising tax revenues relative to demand resulting from the provision by government of essential services, will not be possible without revised information systems for reporting returns to the tax base relative to investments made, or for estimating the tax revenue penalties resulting from an individual being prevented from working, either by default or by intentionally preventing that individual from working. Therefore, it is further proposed that such revised information system be set up, for the City of Ottawa, as a part of the pilot project just referred to in para. 2.6. above.

 

 

 

 

3.  PUBLICITY

 

Get people motivated to be interested in solving the problem, by publicizing it as follows:-

 

  1. Expose the true size and character of the problem.

 

  1. If the problem is not defined properly to start with, it will never be solved. In particular, if it is not discussed at all, people will not even be aware that it exists. This is a MANAGEMENT problem; one of the pre-requisites for solving a management problem is that everybody involved i.e. the general public, the business community and all levels of government -  must understand what has to be done and why. The scale of the problem – whether within an individual company, or nationally – does not alter the argument. Further, everybody has a part to play in terms of contributing to the solution.

 

 

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