Our economic recovery needs a strategy to get Canadians back to work, business can provide solutions

If ever there was a time to develop this talent pipeline, it is in the middle of an economy-destroying pandemic. We need to be ready to bounce back strongly when the disease is behind us.

Only employers can provide the local and regional demand-side data needed to fill these talent pipelines. Business has a critical role to play in helping Canada recover from COVID-19, and this is one of the major contributions it can make to get Canadians back to work, write Perrin Beatty and Leah Nord. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY PERRIN BEATTY AND LEAH NORD

January 20, 2021

Any true economic recovery from the pandemic will inevitably be led by business. Just as every downturn is first felt on Main Street when the lights begin to go out, every recovery starts when the 'open' signs begin reappearing in shop windows. Getting where we need to be won’t happen overnight. ...

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