The conservative leader Pierre Poilievre continued his efforts this week to attract working class voters with a plan to train 350,000 more commercial workers throughout the country.
By billing it as “more boots, less costumes,” Pailievre told reporters in Ottawa on Friday that his plan “will bring home a country that works for people who do the work.”
A statement that accompanies its announcement said that the party is “ready to fight for the workers of Canada” and that the tariffs of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, means that Canada must “recover control of our economy of Americans.”
“That means quickly training Canadians who know how to build, develop and transport the goods that the world needs,” said Poilievre.
The conservative leader said that not only his plan would increase the number of qualified commercial workers, but would harmonize regulations throughout Canada and expand financial support for training.
Pailievre said that the first step in that plan will be “to restore learning subsidies of up to $ 4,000” that were introduced by the last conservative government and will expire at the end of the month.
The government of former Prime Minister Stephen Harper launched two learning grants programs: the Learning Incentives and Learning Realization Grant.
Both subsidies are worth up to a maximum of $ 2,000 each. Requests for subsidy can still be obtained until March 31.
CBC News asked the prime minister’s office if Prime Minister Mark Carney will extend the subsidy beyond the end of the month, but has not yet received an answer.
Existing learning supports
Once these subsidies expire, there are still support supports to help Canadians complete their learning, including:
- Up to $ 20,000 on interest -free loans to help apprentices to attend training.
- Allow the apprentices who attend training to access the benefits of employment insurance (EI).
- Up to $ 10,000 in support of Companies that hire apprentices.
- An annual fund of $ 25 million for unions to support equipment and purchases of materials and associations through Training Training and Innovation Program (UTIP).
- Up to $ 5 million in funds For union projects that increase investment in training equipment.
Cut the support of unions, workers
Pailievre said that if he is elected Prime Minister, a conservative government will expand the UTIP to support the construction of buildings where learning training is carried out.
The conservative leader also said that he will create a special EI class that allows pre-registration unions and universities to be apprentices.
And he said he will work with the provinces to harmonize health and safety standards, so that merchants can work anywhere in Canada.
“This is common sense and we are going to pay all this by reducing bureaucracy, consultants, foreign aid and waste,” said Poilievre.
The announcement reinforces a conservative theme this week that saw Pailievre make a series of ads designed to support industrial workers and merchants.
On Monday, Poilievre visited a steel cable -wire -cable installation in L’Orignal, Ontario, where he promised junk carbon prices in greenhouse gas emissions of large industrial emitters.
“There will be no taxes on Canadian consumers, there are no taxes on Canadian industries,” said Poilievre.
On Wednesday, Pailievre was in Sudbury, Ontario, to announce that all mining permits would be the green light in Ontario Fire Ring. The region in the north of the province is rich in minerals such as chromita, cobalt, nickel, copper and platinum.
At a press conference, Pailievre said the Fire Ring “could make Canada very rich. It would be a change of life for the cities of northern Ontario, galvanizing thousands of payment and modern infrastructure checks.”
