Brantford is one of the areas chosen to participate in the Ontario basic income pilot. A new study shows that automation could dissolve half of Canada’s workforce, especially those jobs in manufacturing and natural resources.
The Brookfield Institute, a Toronto-based think tank, says manufacturing towns and cities near the U.S. border have particularly precarious work profiles, such as Ingersoll, Leamington, and Brantford in Ontario, Drummondville and Granby in Quebec, and Williams Lake, B.C., among many others.
Areas of employment like food services, warehousing, accommodation, and agriculture are also susceptible to automation, according to the study, whereas cities and towns with large […]
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