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The Carney Government just put $6 BILLION on the table for skilled trades training.
The catch? A whack of $ flows only through the building trades unions, shutting out 85% of B.C. and 88% of Alberta's trades workforce.
This needs fixing:
And a Bill Reid story? This really is peak Langley/Cloverdale/political/construction/commonsense nerdery. And we're along for the voyage.
Having exhausted his rolodex, Steven Malkowich welcomed me aboard his @ShipoffoolsHQ podcast. Talked about a bunch of stuff and, of course, had the obligatory shoutout to @WACBennett because THIS IS B.C. POLITICS GOSH DARN IT.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmK8tIO-_io