Federal Human Resources Minister Diane Finley

National Skills Training Dept: Sources tell News that, for the past year, the prime minister has been banging heads in his government to come up with new ways to help Canadians get the right skills for the right jobs namely, thousands of vacancies that companies are begging to fill, according to CBC. Officials say various proposals for a new national skills training strategy went to cabinet and back to the drawing board at least twice in the past year, including the creation of a whole new ministry to focus on the issue and Canada longstanding shortage of skilled workers has apparently made Prime Minister Stephen Harper mad as hell and he not going to take it anymore. Federal Human Resources Minister Diane Finley recently called the labour and skills shortage "the most significant socio-economic challenge ahead of us in Canada." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.