Yes there is a lack of tradespeople in New Brunswick, and all of Atlantic Canada. However, many tradespersons, who call Atlantic Canada home, are transient in nature, often traveling to other regions with higher wages and year-round work opportunities.
Lower wages in Atlantic Canada, is a major factor in attracting and retaining talent. While increasing the number of technical tradespeople is crucial, policymakers and businesses must also address these challenges by improving wages, offering year-round work opportunities, and exploring ways - a variety of flexible work schedules, for example - to attract and retain talent.
No matter what the talent of the employee, those with skills to offer, and a drive to succeed, will gravitate to locations where the best rewards are offered. Directly akin to what various industries themselves do, they go where there is money to be made.
Willing to bet that most of those high trade towns and cities have extensive natural resource extraction operations and new project development. We haven't had that kind of activity in the Maritimes in quite some time. There are still some operations in NB but very few large projects with physical work being done.
The recent federal budget should help unlock new major projects. Hopefully, we can capitalize on some opportunities being presented (e.g., mines, SMRs, hydrogen, etc.).
Yes there is a lack of tradespeople in New Brunswick, and all of Atlantic Canada. However, many tradespersons, who call Atlantic Canada home, are transient in nature, often traveling to other regions with higher wages and year-round work opportunities.
Lower wages in Atlantic Canada, is a major factor in attracting and retaining talent. While increasing the number of technical tradespeople is crucial, policymakers and businesses must also address these challenges by improving wages, offering year-round work opportunities, and exploring ways - a variety of flexible work schedules, for example - to attract and retain talent.
No matter what the talent of the employee, those with skills to offer, and a drive to succeed, will gravitate to locations where the best rewards are offered. Directly akin to what various industries themselves do, they go where there is money to be made.
Willing to bet that most of those high trade towns and cities have extensive natural resource extraction operations and new project development. We haven't had that kind of activity in the Maritimes in quite some time. There are still some operations in NB but very few large projects with physical work being done.
The recent federal budget should help unlock new major projects. Hopefully, we can capitalize on some opportunities being presented (e.g., mines, SMRs, hydrogen, etc.).
Build it and they will come needs to be replaced with skill it and they might build !