A lack of skilled tech workers is limiting productivity across all sectors. Canada must act now to train the talent its economy urgently needs

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Canada is facing serious economic challenges. Our standard of living is falling and has been for years. Our biggest trading partner is slapping tariffs on our goods and throwing uncertainty into our export markets. About 1.6 million Canadians are currently unemployed, and many more are working in jobs that don’t keep pace with the rising cost of living. At the same time, businesses across sectors are struggling to find skilled staff, a problem made worse by our aging workforce.

This isn’t just a rough patch. It’s a structural crisis. And there’s only one way out: we must boost productivity—how much we produce per hour of work—because it directly affects wages, prices and our ability to afford the lives we’re working for. Real gains in productivity don’t come from speeches or slogans. They come from better tools and smarter systems, in other words, technology. But technology alone doesn’t solve problems. People do.

And not just engineers or tradespeople. Technicians and technologists, the mid-level professionals who install, operate and maintain the systems that power everything from hospitals to infrastructure, are now essential across every sector. They’re not optional. They’re the backbone of our economy.

We don’t have nearly enough of them.

Canada’s future depends on people who can actually make technology work.
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