Now even with the onslaught of population, the resources have remained static.

Deindustrialisation, or at least the stagnation of industrial employment, set in almost universally among industrialising countries in the 1980s and 90s.32

For Canadian workers, the expansion has meant increased downward pressure on wages, and stagnant employment numbers, particularly for those under age 35.

This modest share should not belittle the fact that over the last ten years, we have created 3,500 jobs in Switzerland, at a time when employment in the food industry has been stagnant.