Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 9, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 8 Winnipeg free press saturday. May Al 1981 Axworthy sees changes in Job creation training employment and immigration min o Axworthy report due soon Community government still at Odds employment and immigration min ister Lloyd Axworthy said last night the results of a major evaluation of Federal Job creation and training programs will be released some time in the m to three weeks. Axworthy speaking in Winnipeg to the Manitoba career education association said the report will have Defi Nite effects on Federal policy in the area of Job creation programs the unemployment insurance act and govern ment Job training programs. This won t get the traditional government report treatment of being stuck up on a shelf Axworthy Saith the task forces which compiled the report were drawn up soon after he became minister of employment and immigration. "1 was curious about the Impact of the vast array of programs the department s staff City the next two lined for me. It was some Worth of programs designed to ensure canadians find jobs and find the right he told the gathering of teachers and career counsellors that canadians pre occupation with unemployment Statis tics is natural. We All want to know who is employed and who in t and i what kind of jobs Are repeating a familiar theme a worthy said there is a flaw in the Canadian educational system which leaves the Economy starved for skilled workers and burdened with More than unemployed. He said Canada once known for its recruiting of skilled workers overseas is fighting to hang on to what skilled people it has As foreign recruiters Are now combing through the country recruiting from our dwindling skilled labor Force. We re in International Competition for skilled workers. An International consortium just went through Alberta and Saskatchewan and recruited some 350 engineers from Large projects the minister also mentioned the growing average age of Canada s skilled worker class. He said a classic example of the problem is the Lack of Stone cutters in Ontario. Axworthy said there is Only one Stone Cutter practising his Craft in the province. He s a Little italian Guy of about 72 who lives in Brampton and when he retires that s it. There will be no More Stone cutters in he said government statistics show there will not be As Many Young people coming on to the Job Market during the next five years. The growth rate for that category will drop to 1.5 per cent a year from its current 3.5 per cent he said. Axworthy cautioned however this will not result in an automatically improved Job Market. There is still a mismatch there. The jobs that Are open people Are not being trained our town plan your weekend with our town every Friday. 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Mayor Howard Brown told Pepin in a telex this week he is shocked that this action is even being considered for the Winnipeg Thompson Churchill and the Pas Lynn Lake lines serving isolated communities which have no Road Brown predicted dispensing the service would put the North Back 50 mayor Bob Mccleverty of Thicket Portage said the cutback would badly disrupt shoppers commuting to Thompson from Bayline communities such As Gillam and Ilford. If they Start cutting Back on these trains it will mean that people May be faced with spending two or three nights in hotels in Thompson which would make the Cost of shopping he said. Brown said said he is also concerned about the Impact on Churchill s tourist Indus try. About tourists Are expected this year with the majority travelling by train. Triggered when the depart ment overruled the Council s awarding of a garbage col i Lection contract. 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