Canada must ready Indigenous youth for a digital future

Preparing Indigenous youth for the workplace of tomorrow is essential to Canada’s long-term prosperity and the ongoing process of reconciliation. A national skills agenda will ensure our fastest growing youth population are provided a future-focused education, skills, and opportunities to help Canada compete, win, and grow in the global economy.

Fulfilling the federal commitment to provide high-speed internet, including broadband and related infrastructure, to every Canadian by 2030 is a cornerstone to a national skills agenda for Indigenous youth, write Tracee Smith and John Stackhouse. Unsplash photograph by Christin Hume

Opinion

BY TRACEE SMITH AND JOHN STACKHOUSE

July 15, 2021

Urgent action is required to help Indigenous youth thrive in a rapidly changing economy. Indigenous youth are expanding four times quicker than the non-Indigenous population. By 2030, more than 750,000 will make their way through the education system and into a working world that is being upended b...

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