{"id":2462,"date":"2015-11-05T00:17:33","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T05:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadianvisa.com\/news\/?p=2462"},"modified":"2016-04-16T01:55:53","modified_gmt":"2016-04-16T05:55:53","slug":"trades-workers-still-in-short-supply-on-p-e-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/canadianvisa.com\/news\/trades-workers-still-in-short-supply-on-p-e-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Trades workers still in short supply on P.E.I."},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Trades workers still in short supply on P.E.I.<\/h1>\n<p>here continues to be a shortage of skilled trades workers on P.E.I., with electricians, plumbers and carpenters particularly in demand, a problem many\u00a0in the industry say\u00a0is about to get worse.<\/p>\n<p>In Canada, 250,000 people\u00a0are expected to retire from skilled construction work in the next several years, according to Sam Sanderson, general manager of the Construction Association of P.E.I.\u00a0He said\u00a0it&#8217;s urgent to get young people interested in the trades.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to get youth involved, get some excitement into it for them, really show them what the trades\u00a0sector and construction industry is all about,&#8221; said Sanderson. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/prince-edward-island\/trades-workers-p-e-i-shortage-1.3293496\" target=\"_blank\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Trades workers still in short supply on P.E.I.<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trades workers still in short supply on P.E.I. here continues to be a shortage of skilled trades workers on P.E.I., [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":2508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[118,171,15],"class_list":["post-2462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new","tag-pei","tag-slider","tag-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadianvisa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadianvisa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadianvisa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadianvisa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadianvisa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/canadianvisa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2463,"href":"http:\/\/canadianvisa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462\/revisions\/2463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadianvisa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadianvisa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadianvisa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadianvisa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}