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Serious Skilled Labour Shortage Developing in Ontario

No mention is made of one obvious solution: have more children.

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...

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