Behind-the-scenes work on skills policy detailed in election-tinged documents

Behind-the-scenes work on skills policy detailed in election-tinged documents

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announcing spending on the Canada Summer Jobs program in Toronto in 2016. (Aaron Vincent Elkaim/The Canadian Press) Top Canadian civil servants have been told that their departments don’t know what the jobs of the future will look like and that employers’ demands for skills will change more frequently.

The admission is in voluminous material prepared for deputy ministers as they get ready for the fall election and the prospect of a new party taking power or the Liberals’ being re-elected with new priorities.

A series of briefing notes and detailed, lengthy presentations show that much of the […]

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