I am from Cape Breton. I would love to stay here and raise my family but there is such a lack of decent paying jobs. To have at the least a lower middle class life for my family I have to leave. Leave my kids, and leave my family. Sorry but besides nice scenery, Cape Breton sucks shit and is the asshole of Canada. Thanks politicians. —Jobless and Alberta bound
This article appears in Jul 25-31, 2013.
How do you starve a Cape Bretoner?
Hide his welfare cheque in his work boots.
Finally, a Caper who has realised that 200 years have slipped by and yes, it really is the arsehole and back of beyond, ECONOMICALLY speaking. No more John Buchanans to send truckloads of tax dollars to prop up a union greedy dead and dying industry or several.
I have family who live there, and I love the scenery, and the friendliness blah blah – live there, fuck, no. Don’t blame the politicians, you cannot bribe/induce business to relocate to sphincter/Sydney – thank your card carrying, strike ’em Danno brethren for the demise of Cape Biopsy.
No offense, OP, but expecting politicians to generate jobs is why you’re going to Alberta. *We* – you, me, all of us – are the ones who should create small businesses and employ at least ourselves and a few other people. If everyone goes around expecting to have jobs provided, then who the hell is going to create them?
I will create jobs. Just give me a ton of money for start up, supplies, rent, land, staff, taxes, permits, electricity….Yeah lets all do that! Sounds easy.
typicial cape bretoner attitude here…
wah wah my life sucks and someone else wont do anything about it.
I hope you enjoy your job in some crappy oil field while the guy next door is banging your wife.
I sing this ditty to my Caper relatives, funnily enough they don’t find it amusing.
We are an island a rock in the sea
addicted to welfare and pogeeee
we’re all on the oxy, dulatin and smack
that’s why we are a financial outback.
OB. take your kids with you. teach them the value of a hard days work. Don’t come back until you are valued by the locals.
I guess I just haven’t met the right capers, my ‘in laws’ are all hardworking, self- employed, or employed, or retired after a lifetime of employment. mortgages paid up or off.
may not be status jobs some of them, but the bills are paid, food on the table & car payments are on time.
but I have heard about the ‘others’.
All the Capers I know out west are hard workers. Just leave that whole shitty province behind. That joke about the welfare check did made me chuckle.