{"id":564562,"date":"2026-03-27T15:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T15:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/564562\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T15:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T15:14:08","slug":"ottawa-spending-229m-to-help-tariff-hit-ontario-workers-obtain-new-skills-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/564562\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa spending $229M to help tariff-hit Ontario workers obtain new skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA \u2014 The federal government will spend $228.8 million over the next three years to help Ontario workers in industries hit hard by U.S. tariffs acquire new skills and adapt to the trade war disruption.<\/p>\n<p>The new Canada-Ontario Workforce Tariff Response will support workers and job seekers in the province\u2019s softwood lumber, steel and automotive industries \u2014 areas still facing steep sectoral tariffs from the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The federal government says in a news release workers in sectors affected indirectly by tariffs can also access the training and employment services on offer.<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa estimates 27,000 workers in Ontario will get training or other supports through the program.<\/p>\n<p>Federal Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu is announced the funding March 10 alongside her Ontario counterpart David Piccini on Parliament Hill.<\/p>\n<p>On March 9, Hajdu also announced $94.5 million in spending over five years to improve data sharing on job opportunities in key sectors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a92025 The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 The federal government will spend $228.8 million over the next three years to help Ontario workers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-564562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564562","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=564562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}