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:: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 ::
2010 Canadian Winter Olympics facing labour shortage - Workpermit.com, UK
"We don't have enough of the skilled trades necessary just to carry out the functional construction tasks," said Lindsay Meredith, an economics professor at Simon Fraser University. "When you've already got shortages showing up and you get a huge black hole like the Olympics, it's going to suck in everything in sight."
Referring to the labour shortage, she added: "I'd try to poach everything that was breathing."------------------------------------------- posted 4:48 AM :: reference link ::
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