{"id":806725,"date":"2026-07-17T00:04:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T00:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/806725\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T00:04:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T00:04:29","slug":"ottawa-offers-provinces-2-billion-to-help-train-more-skilled-trades-workers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/806725\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa offers provinces $2 billion to help train more skilled trades workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">HALIFAX \u2014 The federal government says it will spend $2 billion to recruit and train up to 100,000 more Red Seal trade workers through bilateral deals it plans to strike with the provinces and territories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jobs and Families Minister Patty Hajdu announced the additional funding for the existing Team Canada Strong program in Halifax today. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The government says the funding will help provinces and territories expand training capacity and reduce systemic barriers that slow certification. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ottawa will soon start negotiations and hopes to have agreements in place with the provinces and territories this fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The money is in addition to the $6 billion Ottawa announced for the Team Canada Strong program in its spring economic update. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The government said at the time that the country would need 1.4 million more trade workers by 2033 to keep up with retirements and economic growth. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cBy collaborating with provinces and territories to remove barriers to skilled trades, we are equipping workers with the tools needed to succeed,\u201d Hajdu said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">By Devin Stevens<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 16, 2026. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HALIFAX \u2014 The federal government says it will spend $2 billion to recruit and train up to 100,000&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":806726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[6763,49,48,3717,47,20739,714],"class_list":["post-806725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-atlantic","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-labour","tag-national","tag-ottawa","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806725","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=806725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/806726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}