Skilled worker

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Manitoba invites 734 in skilled worker in Manitoba.

Completed post-secondary study, round 282, min 816.

Government of Manitoba invited 734 candidates on Oct 22, 2026.

Skilled worker in Manitoba.

Completed post-secondary study in Manitoba, round 282, min 816.

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And if, if you're in the trades, you're probably licking your chops.

But, uh, the, the statistic is that we're losing 2.2 million skilled workers every single year from the trades, and for every five that we lose, we're only getting two back.

Yeah.

And, uh, which again, if you don't know how to fix stuff, that should be scary.

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Government of Manitoba invited 83 under Skilled Worker Stream strategic recruitment on October 8, 2026.

Government of Manitoba invited 83 candidates in Round 281 under the Skilled Worker Stream strategic recruitment on October 8, 2026 for skilled workers.

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Nobody is counting what the workers it already has can do.

That capability is the largest reserve of skilled labor in the country.

Most of it stands idle.

And it will stay idle until someone forms it on the floor and writes it down where the business can see it.

Treat that as an estimate.

Half the stranded chair, if you like.

It is still a great deal of skilled labor and no training program has to graduate it.

See, I came to General Motors in 1989, still writing a doctorate on, yeah, they used to call them diagnostic expert systems.

Sure.

Skilled labor.

Yeah.

Skilled labor.

Ei- either from, from home or from away, skilled labor.

Yeah.

And, and it, well, and it's, and it's, and of course, in Canada, we can move around freely, so that's generally not a big issue.

... or, or, you know, billion-dollar oil field plants, these, uh, uh, recovery, these, this recovery stuff.