Is Canada’s labour shortage a myth?

Is Canada’s labour shortage a myth?

Economist cites StatCan numbers that ‘go against the grain of a few assumptions that we’ve typically made’ “The fact that the so-called labour shortages are most severe in low-wage industries with relatively few formal requirements suggest it may be a problem with the jobs — not a shortage of people.”

So says Jim Stanford, economist and director of the Centre for Future Work in Vancouver.

Stanford was reacting to a recent report issued by Statistics Canada around job vacancies between 2016 and 2022 that broke things down by education levels in order to get a more detailed picture of the labour […]

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