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<h1 style="text-align: center;">Ottawa warned about job losses that could stem from automation</h1>
<h2>[WHAT]</h2>
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<li>] by CanadianPress @ cbc.ca - -&nbsp;Rise of machines means Canadian economy could lose between 1.5 million and 7.5 million jobs in coming years</li>
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<h2>[WHY]</h2>
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<h2>[WHERE]</h2>
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<li><strong>] READ THE FULL ARTICLE</strong></li>
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<li>]&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/job-automation-federal-government-1.4031206" target="_blank">http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/job-automation-federal-government-1.4031206</a></li>
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<h2>[WHEN]</h2>
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<li>] 2017-03-18 - published by cbc.ca&nbsp;</li>
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<h2>[EXAMPLE]</h2>
<p>Federal officials were warned over the summer that machines are going to replace more jobs in the workforce in the coming years and that will require a rethink of how government helps the unemployed.</p>
<p>Documents prepared for top officials at Employment and Social Development Canada don't hint at how federal policy will have to adapt to increased automation in the workforce, noting that predicting the future is a risky proposition.</p>
<p>Experts say what's missing from the documents is any hint of concern that the rise of the machines is an immediate concern that the government must quickly address.</p>
<p>"Many of the trends that may concern us about technology and automation in terms of what their impacts could be on workers are already happening and that's, I think, the missing piece here," said Sunil Johal, policy director with the Mowat Centre at the University of Toronto.</p>
<p>The jobs at the most risk are those that require repetitive activities like an automotive assembly line, although even some high-skilled workers, such as financial advisers, are already being replaced by software programs.</p>
<p>One industry source, who spoke on condition of anonymity in order to discuss private conversations, said&nbsp;<strong>senior government officials acknowledge automation is something they have to deal with, but likely not for decades.</strong>&nbsp;The source said that senior officials believe new jobs will be created to keep people working.</p>
<p>The documents say new jobs will be created because that's just the way the economy works:&nbsp;<strong>As technology kills jobs, it also creates new ones.</strong></p>
<p><strong>The issue</strong>, the documents say,&nbsp;<strong>is that no one knows if enough jobs will be created to replace those lost, nor if they will all be as well-paid</strong>.</p>
<p>The Liberals are telegraphing that they will make skills training services a focus of Wednesday's budget. Once the budget puts a dollar figure on the federal contribution to training, negotiations with provinces and territories on the main funding vehicle for the cash &mdash; the labour market development agreements &mdash; can be finalized.</p>
<p>In a paper he co-wrote last year, Johal argued that the government also needs to look at expanding access to existing training programs, create targeted programs and labour market protections like minimum wage rules for independent contractors and look at introducing emergency lines of credit for people who need a short-term financial boost.</p>
<p><strong>Labour Minister Patty Hajdu said the government is looking to find a way to help sectors who are short of workers, and guide people into emerging fields</strong></p>
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<p>"Successful economies and countries are ones that can be adaptive and that's why skills development is so important," Hajdu said in an interview.</p>
<p>"I'm excited about being able to do that work and help people gain those skills for the shortages that we have in specific sectors and to help support that innovation agenda that really is about fostering creativity and being thoughtful and deliberate about what skills we're training people for."</p>
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<h2>[HOW-TO]</h2>
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<h2>[REFERENCE]</h2>
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<li>] SRC = r/canada, (131)&nbsp;<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/604yhz/ottawa_warned_about_job_losses_that_could_stem/" target="_blank">comments</a>&nbsp;(189)</li>
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<h1 style="text-align: center;">comment mine</h1>
<p>] <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/604yhz/ottawa_warned_about_job_losses_that_could_stem/df3il21/" target="_blank">inevitable</a>,&nbsp;Better find a way to deal with it now so we can prepare for it in the future.</p>
<p>] -&gt; re: ideas?&nbsp;</p>
<p>] --&gt; besides ubi or lower immigration levels</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">] comment re:* - ubi&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">] comment re:* - lower immigration levels</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">] comment re: &nbsp;<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/604yhz/ottawa_warned_about_job_losses_that_could_stem/df3hdg0/" target="_blank">time to rethink immigration levels</a>, 300K+ new immigrants, 60K new jobs,&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">] comment re: ref -&gt; cibc study&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/job-quality-in-canada-at-25-year-low-says-cibc-1.2982891" target="_blank">job quality declining</a>&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">] comment re: fast tracking tech visa</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">BUT] comment re: canadians are not willing to do the work</p>
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