{"id":525004,"date":"2026-03-09T17:57:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T17:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/525004\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T17:57:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T17:57:40","slug":"ottawa-allocates-up-to-94-5-million-to-improve-labour-market-data-on-key-sectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/525004\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa allocates up to $94.5-million to improve labour-market data on key sectors"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A worker welds at a steel manufacturing facility, in Hamilton, Ont. Manufacturing is one of the sectors Ottawa has identified for funding.Chris Young\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

The federal government said Monday it\u2019s planning to spend up to $94.5-million over the next five years to get a better sense of what\u2019s happening on the ground in a turbulent labour market.<\/p>\n

The money will go to 14 organizations to create forecasts and dashboards on data points like job vacancies broken down by key sectors.<\/p>\n

The initiative is meant to give workers, employers and job seekers a better sense of the gaps and opportunities in each industry.<\/p>\n

Federal Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu announced the funding at an Ottawa-area home builder on Monday.<\/p>\n

The funding is expected to support industries hit directly by U.S. tariffs such as manufacturing<\/a> and forestry<\/a>, as well as sectors like construction, trucking, mining<\/a> and aerospace<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The federal government said in a media release it\u2019s targeting industries that represent nearly two-thirds of Canada\u2019s gross domestic product and employ 9.9 million people \u2013 47 per cent of the country\u2019s workforce.<\/p>\n

Tariff-sensitive industries, such as manufacturing, have faced steep job losses over the past 12 months.<\/p>\n

Other sectors have continued to add jobs or retain employees through the turmoil. The unemployment rate in January stood at 6.5 per cent \u2013 a tick lower than a year earlier, in part due to slower growth in the labour force.<\/p>\n

Ottawa said in its release that getting better information about the labour market is critical to efforts to adapt to tariffs, build out major projects and support home construction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: A worker welds at a steel manufacturing facility, in Hamilton, Ont. Manufacturing is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,45,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":{"0":"post-525004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-alberta","9":"tag-arts-news","10":"tag-bc","11":"tag-breaking-news","12":"tag-breaking-news-video","13":"tag-british-columbia","14":"tag-business","15":"tag-ca","16":"tag-canada","17":"tag-canada-news","18":"tag-canada-sports","19":"tag-canada-sports-news","20":"tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","21":"tag-canadian-breaking-news","22":"tag-canadian-news","23":"tag-economy","24":"tag-education","25":"tag-environment","26":"tag-federal-government","27":"tag-foreign-news","28":"tag-globe-and-mail","29":"tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","30":"tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","31":"tag-government","32":"tag-life-news","33":"tag-lifestyle","34":"tag-local-news","35":"tag-manitoba","36":"tag-national-news","37":"tag-new-brunswick","38":"tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","39":"tag-northwest-territories","40":"tag-nova-scotia","41":"tag-nunavut","42":"tag-ontario","43":"tag-pei","44":"tag-photos","45":"tag-political-news","46":"tag-political-opinion","47":"tag-politics","48":"tag-politics-news","49":"tag-quebec","50":"tag-sports-news","51":"tag-technology","52":"tag-travel","53":"tag-trudeau","54":"tag-us-news","55":"tag-world-news","56":"tag-yukon"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}