Is anyone the least bit surprised. A nation of thieves who need chaos to shelter their crimes for public view.........

where you coming from "the messenger"? What did you mean by "It is strange how people who employ few, if any, presume to dictate to private business who they should employ and how they should spend their money."

You make it sound as though business owners take their own money and just hire and pay employees. Businesses don't create jobs, at best they see an opportunity to capitalize on a need or want of consumers, then they bring the need to market, jobs created and maintained as a result of consumer demand. All cost for the endeavour covered in the price of the good or service sold. When a new cost is added the price goes up, just simple logic. If it's an across the board, and therefor fair cost, it doesn't hurt a businesses ability to compete, so whats the problem?
For once someone is doing something for the employee (the little guy). Sure every time you take a slice out of the economy, it reduces the size of the pie that businesses compete for, but in this case it's going to those who can use it.

Sheeprunner, the 4% the government gives out to it's employees is exactly what this potential legislation brings to all employees.

If everyone has to pay the same redundancy pay, this won't hurt business in the sense that it's a level playing field for all.

The only complaint a "business owner" can have is that this is another slice out of the economy , that is going somewhere other than his pocket.

Mr D’Aguilar's comment makes no sense at all: “What does that say about our ease of business? You need to be able to change your employees, inject new life into your business. It need not be an overwhelming cost.”

So if he wants to change any employee, who lets say has worked 5 years, for a new employee and then change again, it would seem he would always be paying towards severance for the employees of the revolving door system he describes.

Anyway you slice it, it would seem that all businesses will be playing by the same rules, and this will just be passed on via increased prices and nobody will gain a competitive advantage.

Perhaps as prices increase as a result, some sales volumes will drop, so be it.

So ultimately the only objection any business might have is that a little bigger slice of the pie is now going to go to the employees, something that all capitalists hate.

Businesses here, most of them at least, always aim to starve their employees.

"Zelmon Knowles, 40, Keith Major, 36, and Lloyd Minnis, 23, stood before Magistrate Andrew Forbes concerning two offences: possession of dangerous drugs with intent to supply and conspiracy to possess dangerous drugs with intent to supply."

Interestingly, the two charges cite "dangerous drugs", yet nobody anywhere can cite any evidence that marijuana is even as dangerous compared to some other legal drugs on the market. I.e. cigarettes and alcohol kill more people and are perfectly legal.

I'm not a pot smoker, or any other drug for that matter, but we all know that the only thing dangerous about marijuana is the actual business dealings surrounding it. Being high is certainly less dangerous than being drunk.

Legalize and take the marijuana trade out of the criminals hands.

Challenge yourself to find and cite a case of someone dying from a Marijuana overdose? As far as I know there has never been a case of this.

Next , look at how many die because of drinking and driving.

Notice that more serious drugs are used by the "elite" in society; yet despite how many movie stars end up dead from cocaine etc, you almost never hear of anyone being charged for possession etc, unless of course they are black and poor.

Legalization of marijuana might be good or bad, Colorado doesn't seem to have been hurt by it, Canadian government has promised to legalize it nation wide.

Anything is better than how things are right now!

Lets not forget the employees, you know the people driving around in all them fancy new trucks, they won't do a lick of work or a repair during 9-5, but come overtime after 5 they all more than willing.

We'd be all better off to go off grid and forget this criminal organization!

Far as I'm concerned the more people laid off the better, and sooner it done broke the better.

They don't want people to be self sufficient, the whole basis of the game is dependant on milking the people for every penny they can raise.......

Hey John, the contractor (CCA) missed two deadlines , their work was also substandard, do you not think that those are the most significant factors in creating the current situation? Another way to ask the question could be, had CCA met the first deadline, and Baha Mar was opened, Baha Mar would have been open now for almost a year; would we be in this position?

Hey Economist, don't be fooled by what you think you see in USA, Canada and Europe, their electrical and other "now private " utilities have only become more and more expensive since going private.

Once private, these bills we've been have will seem cheap!

Ontario Canada has what they call a "debt retirement fee" added to their electricity bills, that fee; to reduce the "debt" is higher than the KWH rate, and their debt has never come down.

We're just following the "WTO" agreement and rules here, having to open our doors, and soon to sell everything government off to the "private sector".

Notice with government you can at least have the "hope" (false usually) that they will operate with the prime goal of serving the people. World wide, the private sector serves only the shareholders, and in some jurisdictions it's required by law that those in charge do everything they can to earn the biggest return for shareholders.

But as long a one has organized a trough to feed at, you're ok, but if you work for a pay check, it's a race to the bottom.........

Keep in mind that all the insurance companies stating the NHI is bad, or won't work etc etc etc , their only motive for saying this is that they will loose revenue and profit. They could care less about you or your family!