Mark Carney is pushing a self-sufficiency agenda. He can’t pull it off without workers from elsewhere.
In the last year, Mark Carney has put together a laundry list of fast-tracked infrastructure projects he says will create a more self-sufficient Canada. And I, like many Canadians, am aligned with that philosophy. But these are no small undertakings. Take the floating natural gas facility slated for the B.C. coast, for example, or the handful of open-pit mineral mines across the country. These projects have massive potential for Canadian prosperity, but there’s a problem: we’re short on the skilled labour needed to tackle them.
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