Canada has a shortage of tradespeople that will worsen this decade unless educators, employers, and policy-makers respond, according to a recent report by the Royal Bank of Canada. “Powering Up: Preparing Canada’s skilled trades for a post-pandemic economy,” says the nation could be 100,000 skilled tradespeople short within five years, including at least 10,000 in the 56 Red Seal trades and about 90,000 in the 250 provincially regulated trades. Industrial mechanics, welders, and boilermakers are in particularly short supply, and by 2028, over 700,000 skilled tradespeople are expected to retire. “Educators, employers, and policy-makers will need to address chronic problems in the trades pipeline, tap into underused pools of talent, and address a widening digital skills gap amid rapid technological advances in the workplace,” states the report. Jayson Myers, CEO of Next Generation Manufacturing Canada (N-Gen) who was quoted in the report, told The Epoch Times that better direction in …
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