Building Canada's Future Workforce (webinar recording)

In these 2 Globe and Mail events, participants focused on how Canada might develop a workforce to support long-term prosperity, business resilience, and national security.

A Future Built on Skills Securing Canada’s Prosperity

As Canada navigates a defining moment marked by rapid shifts in global trade, advancements in artificial intelligence, lagging productivity, and evolving demographics and immigration, our future prosperity depends on our ability to innovate, adapt, and work together. A Future Built on Skills is a one-day hybrid event that brought together the country’s most influential voices in skills, training and workforce development—from government and business to education and community. By connecting ideas, evidence and people who drive change, this forum will align leaders around a bold, coordinated vision for investing in skills and the future of work. To achieve our national ambitions—more housing, modernized infrastructure, and a self-reliant, inclusive economy—we need people with the right skills, in the right places, at the right time.

Building Canada’s Workforce: People and skills for a stronger nation

Industries in Canada are facing a range of workforce challenges, from an aging population to immigration reform, to technology-driven disruption. These issues are set against the backdrop of global instability and geopolitical change. As Canada embarks on a new era of nation-building how might we develop a workforce to support long-term prosperity, business resilience, and national security? On October 22 The Globe and Mail brought CEOs, policy makers, technology and workforce experts together to discuss how to build and sustain Canada’s workforce for a resilient future.