Ontario to spend $1.5 billion on skills training
While I might disagree with not spending some of the Ontario surplus on corporate and business tax relief — to tell investors Ontario is open for business and new jobs – I do approve of money for skills training. When people lose their jobs, particularly those who are unskilled (corrected) but in highly paid manufacturing jobs, they need to learn new highly specialized skills for the new economy — a reality that may not always be possible.
In fact, the centerpiece of Ontario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan’s budget yesterday was $1.5 billion for a three-year skills training program. My hope is that it is not money wasted. My hope is that whoever is given these funds to develop and provide skills training programs does their homework. And, what I mean by homework is that a thorough workplace and economic analysis be done to find out what jobs are needed now and in the near future. Far too often in the past, people have been retrained in skills that were obsolete by the time they got their training finished.
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