From Summerside to Quesnel, these are the communities the government believes may face the greatest threat from workplace automation
A kayaker paddles in the Bedeque Bay during sunset near Summerside, P.E.I., on Saturday, September 3, 2016. HAWKESBURY, Ont. -- Sitting around a table with fellow Steelworkers, Steve Berniquez starts listing companies that once stood in and around Hawkesbury, a small Ontario town an hour's drive east of Ottawa.
An internal government presentation from last August listed Hawkesbury as having the largest share of workers at high risk of being affected by automation. The chart in the lengthy presentation to a group of deputy ministers went province by province with the municipalities that were facing the same fate: Bay Roberts, N.L.; Summerside, P.E.I.; New Glasgow, N.S.; Winkler, Man.; Estevan, Sask.; Quesnel, B.C.; and Brooks, Alta.
Berniquez has seen it. He works in the next-door village of L'Orignal, in the melt shop at Ivaco Rolling Mills, which makes wire rod and steel billets -- semi-finished products that go on for further processing elsewhere. Earlier this month, the company announced it will lay off 50 people of the 538 who work there, most directly because of the tariffs the United States has put on Canadian steel imports.
"These folks are making the economy work," said Richard Leblanc, the area co-ordinator for the United Steelworkers union. "We focus a lot on these big manufacturers that have gone, but some of that has been replaced."
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