
Premier Ford announces new investment in Sheridan's pre-apprenticeship programs
Premier Doug Ford, together with Ministers Prabmeet Sarkaria, Monte McNaughton and Ross Romano, visited Sheridan’s Davis Campus today to announce over $550,000 in funding for Sheridan’s Pre-Apprenticeship Programs. The investment will create placements for an additional 50 students in Sheridan’s General Machinist and Industrial Mechanic Millwright pre-apprenticeship programs.
“Over the next five years, one in five jobs created will be in the skilled trades,” said Premier Ford. “We need more skilled workers to help us build the roads, transit and infrastructure that we need, both now and in the future.”

Minister Sarkaria, Associate Minister of Small Business and Red Tape Reduction, and MPP for Brampton South, noted that Ontario is facing a significant shortage of skilled labour. “The reality is that an aging workforce is driving this shortage. Over the next ten years, the Canadian construction industry will need roughly 300,000 skilled workers.”
“In an economic environment where the competition for talent is global and young people are looking for stable, meaningful and prosperous work, the skilled trades offer financially secure and rewarding careers,” said Dr. Janet Morrison, Sheridan’s President and Vice Chancellor. “That’s why Sheridan invested $47.5 million in this state-of-the-art facility, and is committed to building on our proud history of teaching skilled trades.”

Pictured at top of page (from left to right): Daniel Liao, Associate Dean, Sheridan's School of Skilled Trades, Hon. Monte McNaughton, Minister of Labour, Training and Skills Development, Hon. Prabmeet Sarkaria, Associate Minister of Small Business and Red Tape Reduction, Sheridan's Chancellor Hazel McCallion, Hon. Doug Ford, Premier of Ontario, Hon. Ross Romano, Minister of Colleges and Universities, Dr. Janet Morrison, Sheridan's President and Vice Chancellor.
Pictured above left (from left to right): Premier Doug Ford, Minister McNaughton and Carly Myers, professor of welding at Sheridan.
Pictured bottom right: A Sheridan tool and die student demonstrating equipment to Premier Doug Ford.
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