Ontario’s budget will include $224 million more to build and upgrade training centres, Premier Doug Ford announced Tuesday, part of a push to boost the skilled…
“Over the next decade, we’re going to need thousands of new skilled construction workers to help build the infrastructure our growing population needs, including the factories we were just talking about, highways, new homes, public transit, schools and hospitals.”
Since then, the government has been taking a number of steps toward a goal of building 1.5 million homes in 10 years – including, controversially, opening up some of the protected Greenbelt lands to housing development.Article content“Today, nearly 300,000 jobs are going unfilled, costing our economy billions in lost productivity, and lost opportunities for workers and jobseekers,” he said Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the province’s Financial Accountability Office released a labour market report Tuesday, saying that both job creation and long-term job vacancies are at record levels. While the job creation numbers were strong, and largely in full-time positions, Ontarians’ wages did not keep pace with inflation, the report found. The average hourly wage increased 4.2 per cent to $32.94 in 2022, below the 6.8 per cent inflation rate.
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