| Employment and Social Development Canada | backgrounders
The Government of Canada announced funding of up to $52 million for 16 new projects through the Foreign Credential Recognition (FCR) Program, aimed at strengthening Canada’s healthcare workforce and construction sectors. These initiatives reflect a commitment to support the labour market integration of internationally trained professionals.
| Employment and Social Development Canada | news releases
Canada is home to the best talent in the world, a growing population, an ambitious building plan and a renewed call to add more resilience into our economy and key sectors—particularly the healthcare and construction sectors.
| Employment and Social Development Canada | media advisories
The Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities and to the Minister of Families, Children and Social Development and Member of Parliament for St. Catharines, Chris Bittle, will be in Toronto to announce funding to improve foreign credential recognition processes and help internationally trained professionals across the country secure employment in the healthcare and construction sectors.
| Employment and Social Development Canada | news releases
The care economy, which encompasses both unpaid and paid care, provides crucial care and support to all generations, including parents, grandparents, children, and many adults who live with disabilities or long-term conditions.
| Employment and Social Development Canada | backgrounders
The new Canada Retraining and Opportunities Initiative provides supplemental support to organizations to respond to exceptional situations of mass layoffs that significantly impact their communities, to help workers transition to new jobs.
| Employment and Social Development Canada | news releases
Canada is home to a proud, adaptable and robust social safety net. The Government of Canada has worked with local and sectoral partners to implement measures that expand that net to support even more workers, keep more communities and towns resilient and bridge more impacted Canadians and their families to new opportunities.
| Employment and Social Development Canada | backgrounders
The Canadian Apprenticeship Strategy (CAS) aims to support a trades workforce that is skilled, inclusive, certified and productive.
| Employment and Social Development Canada | news releases
The race to decarbonization is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to create good-paying jobs, grow our economy and lower harmful emissions. By investing in union training programs and giving tradespeople the green skills required to meet this moment, we are ensuring that Canadian workers play an active role in that race and assume an outsized position in the jobs and opportunities it promises to bring.
| Employment and Social Development Canada | backgrounders
The Canadian Apprenticeship Strategy (CAS) aims to support a trades workforce that is skilled, inclusive, certified and productive.
| Employment and Social Development Canada | news releases
Skilled trades jobs are essential to ensure our homes, businesses and public spaces are safe, functional and well maintained. The Government of Canada is investing in apprenticeship training to grow a larger, certified, diverse and inclusive trades workforce.
