Nova Scotia Dept: The same report indicated that federal Human Resources Minister Diane Finley recently chastised Nova Scotia's NDP government for seeking to import workers to build ships instead of drawing from the pool of 42,000 unemployed Nova Scotians, according to Winnipeg Free Press. An under-reported aspect of the federal budget is the Harper government's plan to modify unemployment programs in order to better match workers with employers struggling with labour shortages and bRANDON -- According to a Canadian Press report "recent research by Statistics Canada shows unemployed people outnumber the amount of job vacancies by a ratio of three to one. While there are some industries that have pockets of labour shortages, generally, there is a surplus of workers and not enough jobs to go around." "Those workers can be found in Nova Scotia and our first priority is linking the 42,000 Nova Scotians looking for work with the shipbuilding jobs that are available," Finley told a Halifax audience. "If they do not have the skills needed for the shipbuilding jobs, we should help them get the skills they need."
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