Among the general public, a concern about the de-stabilizing impact of technology prompts a near majority of Canadians to call for government action. Other people say that technological advances throughout xxxxxx history created thousands of new jobs, that this was so even when xxxxxx thousands of farm jobs were lost because of new farm machinery, xxxxxx and history will repeat itself again. Public support for a national job-sharing program varies greatly. It is strongest among older, less educated individuals and among French-speakers. Younger Canadians are somewhat more strongly opposed to job sharing than older generations.
Education is the key factor in public attitudes towards job sharing.
Opposition to such a program rises markedly with each level of education. It is not clear whether the educated oppose job sharing because they doubt its effectiveness or merely recognize that they are the winners from the technological revolution. That the educated are the big winners is a near consensus view. There's been talk about who wins and who loses from technology. Each of these perceptions of winners and losers is largely shared irrespective of the region, language, education, or other characteristic of respondents.