Canada is falling behind in the global race for skilled workers

Other advanced economies facing the same demographic pressures have begun to fundamentally rethink how they train, attract, and integrate skilled workers, and Canada has not kept pace.
We need an immigration and skills strategy built for the world as it is—not the world of decades past, writes Kumaran Nadesan.

Canada’s skilled trades crisis is no longer a projection. It is a present and accelerating threat to our economy and quality of life. Nearly 700,000 skilled tradespeople—electricians, personal support workers (PSWs), early childhood educators (ECEs), cybersecurity techni...

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