{"id":16928,"date":"2014-06-26T01:23:46","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T17:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=16928"},"modified":"2014-06-26T01:23:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T17:23:46","slug":"employment-minister-tells-skills-summit-canada-will-face-gap-in-trades-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/26\/employment-minister-tells-skills-summit-canada-will-face-gap-in-trades-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Employment minister tells skills summit Canada will face gap in trades workers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Immigration Minister Jason Kenney. Photo courtesy of Kenney’s official Facebook page.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

TORONTO — Canada’s employment minister says a shortage of skilled workers will be one of the country’s greatest future economic challenges.<\/p>\n

Jason Kenney gave the warning today at a skills summit in Toronto where stakeholders have gathered to discuss the labour market, employee training and those under-represented in the labour force.<\/p>\n

Kenney says the construction, mining and petroleum sectors are examples of industries that will face serious shortages of skilled workers over the next decade.<\/p>\n

He adds that stakeholders need to de-stigmatize the trades and encourage young workers to enter skilled vocations.<\/p>\n

The minister cites countries such as Germany and the United Kingdom as places where apprenticeship programs offer youth better employment options.<\/p>\n

The conference comes less than a week after Kenney announced a myriad of changes to the controversial temporary foreign workers program.<\/p>\n

The new changes include a limit on the number of foreign workers that large and medium-sized companies are permitted to hire, stiffer penalties for companies found to be violating the new rules and on-site audits and inspections to guard against abuses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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