"“What is unconscionable right now is that while we have a relatively high youth unemployment rate…. We don’t have Albertans or Canadians with the skill sets required to fill the technical positions that are available. The province of Alberta has 75,000 temporary foreign workers who are, in many cases, filling very technical positions. They simply can’t fill those jobs with local residents.”
A healthy economy needs theatre graduates and machinists alike, Mr. Lukaszuk said. He attributes much of Mount Royal’s threat of chopping programs to mere politicking and bluster."