REGINA — Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall says the province isn’t overlooking unemployed aboriginal people by trying to recruit workers from Ireland.
Wall, Immigration Minister Rob Norris and a delegation of Saskatchewan employers are heading to Ireland to recruit skilled workers to fill more than 275 jobs.
The premier says it’s not a matter of recruiting immigrants over training aboriginal people in the province.
He says the government has boosted support for First Nations training, but acknowledges more needs to be done.
Wall says both recruitment and training are necessary to find as many as 90,000 skilled workers that will be needed over the next decade.
It’s not the province’s first trip abroad to lure workers — officials recruited nearly 400 nurses from the Philippines.