Being competitive globally involves education, job skills, infrastructure, innovation, technology and regulation. It is an integrated package. Competitiveness is the result of a political philosophy that sets the balance between government and the private sector.
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Competitiveness, jobs and national prosperity need to be the principal ballot questions for the next federal election. Whoever can best ensure our quality of life through economic growth deserves to govern. We have the priorities backwards. Other issues such as government accountability, lowering the GST and same-sex marriage rights are secondary to making Canada competitive for the future. Without that, there won't be money for anything else.
They should be the major ballot questions in Newfoundland and Labrador this October.Who really cares if a particular politician or party wins all the seats and scores high in the polls?
None of that is about "jobs, jobs, jobs".
Then again, it turned out that the last provincial election wasn't about "jobs, jobs, jobs" either.
It's time for a real change.
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