Politics
Wednesday April 14, 2004
Serious Skilled Labour Shortage Developing in Ontario
No mention is made of one obvious solution: have more children.
TODAY'S HEADLINES
E-MAIL
PRINT
TORONTO, April 14, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In a Toronto Star report Wednesday, Ontario Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty announced the allocation of $18 million to stimulate growth in a flagging skilled labour sector. The report warns that a shortfall in skilled labourers will have "dire consequences for the province's economy."
"People are retiring out of those programs at a rate that is close to alarming," McGuinty said, in a press conference being held at Toronto's Centennial College School of Transportation. "We feel a responsibility to work together with our colleges and the private sector as well as labour to ensure we are going to be able to satisfy the continuing demand for skilled workers."
The Conference Board of Canada last year estimated that Ontario would have a one million worker deficit of skilled workers within 20 years.
The Ontario Chamber of Commerce revealed results of a survey Tuesday suggesting that more than half of the skilled trades people will retire in the next 15 years. The survey also revealed that almost half of Chamber members anticipate a shortage in skilled labour by 2010.
Sadly, no suggestion is made for incentives to encourage couples to have larger families. Nor is the abortion issue mentioned. In Canada alone since 1970, enough children have been killed through abortion to populate the city of Toronto. This figure does not take into account the much larger number of chemical and intrauterine abortions induced through the birth control pill (also an abortifacient) and intrauterine devices.
The resulting very low birthrate has been building to a dangerous demographic imbalance and associated rapidly rising health care costs, the developing worker shortage (versus a huge growth in the number of retired persons) and many other negative affects.
Read related LifeSiteNews.com coverage, "Most Major Industrial Countries Unprepared for Coming Population Ageing Crisis and Labour Shortage," at: http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/jan/04012801.html
Read the Toronto Star coverage at: http://www.thestar.ca/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Ty...
Back to TopLatest Headlines
- US Congress Passes Health Care Reform Bill 220 - 215
- Stupak Amendment to Health Care Bill Passes 240 - 194 Saturday Evening
- NY Times: Dems Banking on Later Squeezing Pro-Life Language Out of Bill in Committee
- USCCB Spokesman: "Definitely Not True" that Bishops Support Bill As it Stands
- TIME Got it Wrong - Prof. George Opposed Grandiose Kennedy Funeral
- Major Health Care Development - Pro-Life Stupak Amendment Vote OK'd for Saturday
- USCCB Condemnation Tears Facade off "Phony" Abortion Compromise for Health Bill
- Health Care Bill Includes Monthly Abortion Premium: House Minority Leader Boehner
- TIME Article Setting Burke Against O'Malley Called "Tactical strike" on Behalf of Catholic Left
- Dirty Fighting on Abortion Funding: Word-Games and Health-Care Theatrics Boggle the Mind
- Commentary on November 6 News
- Note to LifeSiteNews Subscribers with Rogers email addresses
- New York Gov. Declares Nov. 10 Extraordinary Legislative Session for Same-Sex "Marriage"
- Washington's Pro-Family Amendment Effort Defeated - R-71 Almost Certain to Pass
- Vote Pushed Back on Canadian Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide Bill to Dec. 2
- Elderly U.K. Couple in Good Health Commit Suicide, Complain of Assisted Suicide Law
- Texas Late-Term Abortionist and Baptist Minister Admits: "Am I killing? Yes, I am"
- New Evidence Contradicts CCHD's Findings on Accused Pro-Abortion Partner
- Quebec Priest Denies Possibility of Sexual Reorientation Therapy on TV
- New Hampshire Same-Sex "Marriage" Law in Crosshairs after Maine's Law Crumbles
- Brooklyn Bishop Criticized for Recorded Message Praising Pro-Abortion Politician
- First Group of "Traditionalist" Anglicans in Britain Votes to Enter Catholic Church
Most Read this Week
- Planned Parenthood Director Resigns after Watching Ultrasound of Abortion Procedure
- Nun Defiant Following Rebuke, but Stops Abortion Escorting
- Breaking: Dominican Community Apologizes for Nun Caught Acting as Abortion Escort
- TIME Article Setting Burke Against O'Malley Called "Tactical strike" on Behalf of Catholics Left
- Over 200 Christendom College Students Protest Abortion at Planned Parenthood Clinic
- US Congress Passes Health Care Reform Bill 218 to 215
- Newly Identified Corporate Supporters of Planned Parenthood Named
- Scottish Gay Rights Activists Found Guilty of Pedophilia Sentenced to Life Imprisonment
- Major Health Care Bill Development - Stupak Hyde Amendment Vote OK'd
- Health Care Bill Includes Monthly Abortion Premium: House Minority Leader Boehner
MORE NEWS: 
LifeSiteNews.com Home Page Last 10 Days Archives Special Reports
Copyright © LifeSiteNews.com. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives License. You may republish this article or portions of it without request provided the content is not altered and it is clearly attributed to "LifeSiteNews.com". Any website publishing of complete or large portions of original LifeSiteNews articles MUST additionally include a live link to www.LifeSiteNews.com. The link is not required for excerpts. Republishing of articles on LifeSiteNews.com from other sources as noted is subject to the conditions of those sources.