Budget Focus on Skilled Labour Perceived as a Fruitful Strategy

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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In comparison to the “transformational” mega-budget of 2012, “Economic Action Plan 2013” is more likely to be a unchanging and stagnant. The new budget is anticipated to include very little or negligible new spending, in fact, it involves almost $2 billion in new cuts, and extraordinary amendments projected to make the Harper government come out as more cautious, moderate, sensible and competent.

However, in political point of view, the budget might just be doing  a little more good to the ruling Conservatives. It was previously reported by Postmedia News in late January, that the focus of Thursday’s budget document and speech will be training, and design a better fit between the skills of those in the labour force and the requirements of employers. Our sources close to the Conservative claim that over the past year, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has heard from key business leaders at numerous occasions, that their inability to find skilled workers is obstructing proper growth. And now this issue has become a point of focus for the government. In fact, the strategy is also anticipated to include skills training for seniors, immigrants, the disabled and aboriginals.

It is widely perceived by the PMO that better job training will ease economic hardship on aboriginal reserves, while simultaneously providing northern resource firms with a better-trained and readily available pool of workers. This has now become a centre stage of Harper government’s incremental approach to addressing social problems on reserves, working on a case-by-case basis with bands interested in economic development.