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24 Nov, 5 tweets, 3 min read
#StarExclusive: The Ontario government is making a big push to get young people to consider careers in the trades, dispatching recruiters to some 800 Ontario high schools and holding large fairs across the province to link students with jobs. thestar.com/politics/provi…
The push to promote skilled trades to students is an effort to stave off a looming shortage of workers in the fields, which can pay about $100,000 a year with benefits and pensions.
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Labour Minister Monte McNaughton and Education Minister Stephen Lecce are in Whitby Wednesday morning to announce details of $90 million in funding for the trades, boosting provincial spending in the area to $1.5 billion over the next four years.
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McNaughton said the province’s plan “is built around ending the stigma, simplifying the apprenticeship system and encouraging employers to hire apprentices,” including a pledge to provide companies with $17,000 per apprentice from under-represented groups.
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Lecce has previously said that talk of the trades will begin in elementary school, before students start making decisions on career paths.
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