Horan: Board of Trade

Board of Trade: Our biggest issue at the Board of Trade this year is our members are finding it hard to get appropriate numbers of people in order to respond to the workloads that are available and the opportunities that are available, Horan said Friday, and we wanted to be sure that these particular ministers, we felt were strategic in making sure that they understood the issues in our regions as it relates to labour market, according to The Telegram. We know that theres approximately 80,000 jobs coming in the next three to five years, 60,000 of which are actually permanent jobs. Twenty-thousand will be temporary construction work, she said. Horan added that Newfoundland and Labradors unemployment rate 10.8 per cent as of December 2013, according to Statistics Canada is misleading and Board of Trade chairwoman Sharon Horan and CEO Nancy Healey met with Immigration Minister Chris Alexander, Employment and Social Development Minister Jason Kenney and Minister of State and Minister for Newfoundland and Labrador Rob Moore while attending the Northern Lights conference and trade show in Ottawa this week. Horan said Newfoundland and Labradors aging and declining population is worrisome for the provinces employers. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.