NEVER ENDING RIGHT WING HORSE MANURE

Today's Waterloo Region Record carrys this opinion piece by Gwyn Morgan "Skills shortage is Canada's biggest challenge". At first blush even the title is a pile of pus. Unemployment is Canada's biggest challenge. However after reading the article in its' entirety I am confident in saying that this guy is desperately trying to justify why our right wing federal government as well as most provincial governments have driven our economy into the ground. From free trade with third world countries and exporting decent jobs around the globe to line the pockets of the already wealthy, they have a lot to answer for. hence this crap about a lack of skills. We've got more university graduates in all fields than we've ever had before. that most decidely includes maths and sciences. Perhaps he is correct in regards to engineering programs turning down qualified applicants. caertainly medicine and law indeed do that. But math and all the sciences absolutely do not. Yes a high school grad with mediocre math or science grades may well not get his first University choice but he will get accepted. I've got two children with science degrees and one had her choice of Universities based on high school grades and the other did not based on grades. Nevertheless they both have an Honours Bachelor of Science degree and more today. Now it's all about getting appropriate jobs and neither one has been overwhelmed with job offers. Shame on Gwyn Morgan and others of his ilk blaming the victims of the canadian economy. Uneducated and ignorant politicians are the ultimate cause of unemployment in this country, not an alleged lack of skills.