Prince Edward Island’s labour shortage, which is affecting every sector from health care to agriculture and small business, has emerged as a major issue ahead of the April 3 provincial election.
The province’s unemployment rate has historically been one of the highest in the country, but Statistics Canada data has been showing that growth in the Island’s workforce hasn’t kept up with the growth rate in the number of jobs in recent years.
Katera Arsenault, the director at Le Jardin des Étoiles daycare in Summerside, needs to fill three vacancies just to get back to regular staffing levels, and doesn’t know how she’d manage if she lost
