Canada must rethink skills training as automation eliminates jobs: Barton
OTTAWA — The head of the government’s economic growth advisory council says governments need to find better ways to confront income inequality that risks becoming deeper as technology makes some jobs irrelevant.
Dominic Barton told a conference of university students, administrators and educators that some 40 per cent of existing Canadian jobs will disappear over the coming decade as technology automates their work.
He says that could widen the gulf between rich and poor as those Canadians who aren’t on the leading edge of technological change are left behind.
He says the Canadian government has to figure out what to do with older workers whose skills are no longer sought after.