Kids stepped out of the classroom for a skilled trades career fair

We are in Windsor today for the Windsor Stop of the Level Up Career Fair series. We are here to introduce the youth to exciting skill trades, careers, hands-on experience today. We're expecting about 1,500 kids, 1,500 students today, it's going to be a big day. I actually have a job, but it was pretty difficult. I had to get friends together to get to know, I think we have an issue where there's too many people, not enough jobs, so the economic side of Windsor needs to grow to continue providing for the people. Because I have no idea how to get a job, one, and two, I don't know really much information about it. Well I think it's an opportunity for them to get their foot in the door with not as much resistance as back in the day, whereas the job numbers were a lot lower, nobody was hiring as much, there was a big gap in that hiring process, whereas now that these job opportunities are opening up, you will see a younger workforce moving into these places because companies need them. They're always have a lot of anxiety what they want to do like it's kind of scary even this age 15 like what I'm gonna do with my life so we try to introduce things that they can do like skilled trades. Obviously the academics are always there but this is a great opportunity for them to learn what they can do. over the next, for the rest of their life. With the skilled trades shortage, we need about 400,000 more skilled trades professionals in the labor market to build all the major projects that we need as a province and as a country. And we need to introduce, we need our youth to be able to see what it's like. You can't just learn this out of a textbook, so it's really important to give them that hands-on exposure. I think it's going to change for the better, for sure. We know the opportunities are out there. We still have the aging average age for trades person, which is in the late 50s, so we know that more and more opportunities in skilled trades will be available.