Ontario Launches New Fund to Build Skilled Trades Training Centres

Premier Ford announced that the government is investing $224 million to build and upgrade training centres and help tackle our province’s historic labour shortage.

Applications for the new Skills Development (SDF) Capital Stream open on June 30. It will help unions, Indigenous centres, and industry associations with funding to build new training centres, or upgrade and convert existing facilities into new training centres with state-of-the-art equipment and technology.

In addition, the Ontario government is investing $535,000 through the SDF program to launch two innovative projects that will expand apprenticeship opportunities to 1,350 future boilermakers in Northern Ontario and across the province.

News Release; https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/1003179/ontario-launches-new-fund-to-build-skilled-trades-training-centres