OTTAWA — The Canadian ministers hosting a group of G7 counterparts in Montreal have begun crafting cross-border policies that would help and reassure workers caught in the churn of a dramatically evolving labour market.
The most recent estimates provided at the two-day meeting that started Tuesday suggest that up to 15 per cent of jobs in the G7 could disappear because of automation over the next two decades.
Automation is expected to generate demand for both high-skilled and low-skilled occupations, resulting in "a hollowing of the middle" marked by declines in jobs requiring a mid-range level of skill, according to details […]
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