Ontario Helping Indigenous People Start Careers in the Skilled Trades
Training will prepare workers for construction and mining jobs in Northern Ontario
June 17, 2021
The Ontario government is investing $3.6 million to help 150 Indigenous people receive training to start careers building and running the new Greenstone Gold Mine in Geraldton. They will learn the skills they need to become construction craft workers, heavy equipment operators, truck drivers, crane operators, welders and millwrights.
Details were provided today by Monte McNaughton, Minister of Labour, Training and Skills Development, who was joined by Greg Rickford, Minister of Energy, Northern Development and Mines and Minister of Indigenous Affairs, and Jane McKenna, Parliamentary Assistant to Minister McNaughton.