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    Job losses rain on Windsor's parade

    CBC – Mon, 5 Sep, 2011

    Canadians cannot afford to keep giving handouts to big corporations while public services are threatened and governments are facing huge deficits, a leader of the province's biggest union said Monday.

    "We keep talking about offering tax cuts to get companies to invest in Canada and they do the exact opposite. All corporate tax cuts did was line the pockets of people who were already rich while making life harder for the poor and middle classes," said CUPE Ontario vice-president Andrea Madden at Monday's Labour Day Parade in Windsor.

    Madden, who lives in Windsor, where she works for the Windsor-Essex Children's Aid Society and is president of the Windsor District CUPE Council, said she is concerned that Windsor has had one of the highest unemployment rates in Canada as manufacturers continue to leave the city.

    "Right now, what people in Windsor need is a government that will help them rebuild their futures. They need help, and cuts to the services that will get them on the road to recovery is not helping," Madden said.

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      ...  •  8 months ago
      canadians are lazy.
      they just sit and complain.
      they never experienced hard time
    • HK
      HK  •  8 months ago
      Lets just hope it doesnt get as bad as Detroit. Just south of the border..., row upon row of abandoned houses.
    • debbie123
      debbie123  •  8 months ago
      people in windsor need to move to where the jobs are , or start their own businesses
    • A Yahoo! User  •  8 months ago
      How do I feel about this article? How about uninformed. This a very short article.
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