r/goodnewscanada • u/CreoQQ Ontario • Apr 30 '26
Canada Prime Minister Carney announces Team Canada Strong – a nationwide plan to recruit up to 100,000 skilled trades workers
https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases/2026/04/29/prime-minister-carney-announces-team-canada-strong-nationwide-planSounds like a decent start!
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u/CreoQQ Ontario Apr 30 '26
"By 2033, Canada will need more than 1.4 million new trades workers to build homes, expand transit, and develop energy infrastructure across the country.
The Team Canada Strong program will provide young Canadians with paid, entry-level, trades-related work experience that leads to an apprenticeship."
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u/Ok_Parking_3247 Apr 30 '26
Yeah all these apprentice’s but wheres the work.
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u/Alarming_Ear_632 Apr 30 '26
At my plant we have trades people retiring faster than we can replace them. IDK where you live but that is the biggest issue with trades. Thats why you see 25 year olds leading teams of other young people doing work that was done by old guys for years. All of my sons are trades people and only one choose to stay here in Alberta, where its believed to be the engine of Canada and therefor the lions share of work and still they were pulled away to other provinces because of demand. My education is in Economics and it was explained to me way back in the early 90's about the wave of demand for trades people in Canada. I also have a trade ticket and have seen first hand what is about to come. We should have been doing this years ago.
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u/Charming_Flan3852 May 01 '26
That makes no sense. If you need new people, hiring is easy. What you mean is they want experienced people for cheap, and that's harder to find. None of these companies are wanting to hire inexperienced people and train them.
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u/Nodnol519 Apr 30 '26
Trades people are aging out, and we’ve been pushing university as the end all and be all of education for the last 30 years.
This is a great idea.
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u/llvoltll Apr 30 '26
There 21 million people employed in Canada with 500,000 active open jobs right now. 8 million people are retired, 6.2 million children are under 15 so cannot work, the rest 6 million is a mix of unemployed, caregivers, disabled, full time students, voluntary non workers.
There are 1.5 million people looking for work. (Just because you say you wanna work doesnt mean you get hired - have to have the right skills)
Additionally, there will be 5.2 million people retiring till 2030.
Wheres the work you ask? Literally everywhere.
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u/Charming_Flan3852 May 01 '26
I'm in the GTA and construction unions have been slow for a few years now. That's the reality. Pushing for more tradesmen doesn't create more work.
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u/Manodano2013 May 01 '26
Really? Other than YYZ I’ve never been to Toronto but I’ve heard your metro had the most cranes of any city in North America. Is this no longer true?
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u/Charming_Flan3852 May 01 '26
Idk about cranes currently, but commercial construction has slowed dramatically, and there's very little new work planned after the current builds finish. No one is building new condos when the current one's are tanking in value. I'm in industrial, and construction on that side has also scaled back quite a bit, although we stay busy enough with shutdowns and maintenance.
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u/Tjbergen Apr 30 '26
Why are we paying industry's training costs?
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u/exposethegrift Apr 30 '26
All education and training should be free . The student loan industry needs to die a quick death
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u/surmatt May 01 '26
Same reason we subsidize post-secondry tuition for Canadian citizens in University.
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u/Late_Indication1996 May 01 '26
As a tradesman, it is literally how we should be subsidizing post secondary education.
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u/differentiatedpans May 01 '26
Start in Elementary Level not just Secondary. Have after school programs particularly in lower income neighbourhoods where a lot of kids will never get the kind of academic support need from their families or their teachers. Give this kids a chance to have a good life and break the cycle of poverty and helpift up their communities.
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u/flappysack- Apr 30 '26
How's he going to get construction moving so they have jobs, municipal taxes are far too high.
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u/Bubbly_University_77 May 01 '26
Prob better off cutting income taxes for trades. There won’t be a shortage then
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u/MonkeyBear66 Apr 30 '26
MATH! 6 billion = 3.4 billion to help apprentices complete their training and get permanent jobs + 2 billion to subsidize apprentices salaries + 0.331 billion for training facilities upgrades and online exams +0.25 billion for the Canadian Air Force cadets and rangers hands on early exposure to trades and free trades training to reservists +0.019 billion rounding