Canada’s jobs gap puts skills training, education atop growth agenda

This jobs gap means the growth potential of the economy is being held back. Canadian businesses are facing lost opportunities, hospitals can’t treat patients, restaurants can’t feed customers and airlines can’t meet flight schedules.

Minister of Labour Seamus O’Regan, pictured in Ottawa on Sept. 19, 2022. This jobs gap means the growth potential of the economy is being held back, writes David Crane. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

September 29, 2022

TORONTO—We knew employers were having a tough time finding workers. But it was still a shock to learn that in the second quarter of this year there were nearly one million job vaca...

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