Maximizing the opportunity will depend on ensuring employers can access the skilled workforce needed to commercialize, scale, and strengthen Canadian capacity.
The program, which helps support the Carney government’s ‘one Canadian economy’ vision, is at risk without permanent long-term funding.
An antidote to the pandemic’s economic aftershocks, the Student Work Placement Program is helping to course-correct the impacts COVID-19 had on skills development, and ensuring the workforce remains agile.
