If there is a need for trained professionals in some segment of society, the solution is to be found in our educational system, not in importing trained professionals from other countries. Economic growth and population growth have not altered that statistic. As the population has grown so too has the number of unemployed. Growth is not the answer to the problem of unemployment. Growth is not the long-term solution to any of our fundamental social and economic problems.
Growth is the problem.
Economic growth cannot be sustained without limit. Now is the time to reject the philosophy of endless growth. I find it somewhat frightening and indicative of the lack of political leadership that the environmental critic for the Canadian Alliance Party is promoting a policy that would destroy all that is good about his country. Be concerned less with the current generation and think more about what you will leave for those who follow. Dr. Douglas Hube is a professor of physics at the University of Alberta.