Posted AT 8:00 PM EST on 13/08/08
Alarm bells sounded over labour in Quebec
Canada's employment boom may have stalled, but a national demographic squeeze on labour pools is looming – and nowhere more than in Quebec.
The alarm bell was sounded in a
Desjardins Group study Wednesday, which found even boosting the province's birth rate and immigration levels won't compensate for the tidal wave of retiring workers.
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